In article <200209191953.g8JJrq824441@egsner.cirr.com>,
Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com> wrote:
>
>Greetings,
>
>	I'm trying to understand why NetBSD chooses COM2: as the
>console any time I attempt to turn on the BIOS ``console
>redirection'', and set it at COM1:

Because the console re-direction steals the com1 port so that
the OS does not see it anymore.

>	If I use the ``normal'' boot blocks, I'll get the boot
>loader's output on the BIOS console, but then the kernels output
>is never seen.
>
>	Using the ``serial'' boot blocks, all of the BIOS output
>goes to COM1:, and then the boot blocks (and the kernel) output
>everything to COM2:.
>
>	Is there any way to convince everything to share the
>same console port?  I hate the idea of having to use two
>terminal server ports to manage one box.

Turn console redirection off in the bios and and use the biosboot-com0
boot blocks.

christos