I recall setting up a serial console back when I was getting 1.1A
running on my notebook.

I now want to set up a serial console for my i486 running 1.2G
(Perry's snapshot of some time ago now) preferably on com1 rather than
com0.

I tried:

#options	COMCONSOLE=0,CONADDR=0x3f8,CONUNIT=0,CONSPEED=9600
options	COMCONSOLE=1,CONADDR=0x2f8,CONUNIT=1,CONSPEED=9600

but when I booted that kernel it behaved normally and I got nothing
displayed down the wire.

I could use com0 is that is all that works - it would just mean extra
cabling... 

any assistance appreciated.

--sjg