>> bad company. very bad... :(
>
> Too bad!

you name it ;)

>> yes, that's true; if it'd be remote, then this would be very useful ;)
>
> It is very useful - my G4 is colocated, and the serial port has saved 
> me several times from a drive.

'til now i use Sun (and one sgi ;) only for this purpose. i have to 
replace a broken peecee (are there any non-broken peecees put there? 
SCNR), so this one will go out to an NewWorld machine i guess. 
nevertheless you have to find a _really 'professional'_ provider in 
germany, which is not that easy. professional -> can provide serial 
access || has heard of 'PortMaster' etc. :/

>> so, just one question left: the kernel 'recognizes' the Stealth as 
>> the default serial port for accessing DDB on the machine?
>
> If the kernel is handed the serial port as the OF input / output, then 
> yes, that's all.

yip, then i'll give it a shot tomorrow morning.

> The ZS_ABORT works on the Stealth (but I have never seen it work on an 
> older PowerMac with built-in serial), and the only other change you 
> might want to do is have this line in /etc/ttys:
>
> ttyZ0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600"  vt100   on secure
>
> (console and E0 can be off)

but this is not required, is it? the thing is that i want to get access 
to a kernel which drops into DDB while booting.

> Other than that, I didn't do anything special - just OF settings, DDB, 
> ZS_CONSOLE_ABORT, and /etc/ttys.
>
> John

thanks, john!

regards,

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