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From: jseng@technet.sg (James Seng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Booting up via serial port
Date: 22 Aug 1995 04:27:01 GMT
Organization: Technet, Singapore
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What i am trying to do is to make my freebsd box a delicated router.
It get very troublesome if i need to attach a keyboard and monitor
to the router whenever i need to check on it. I will prefer that 
it can bootup via the serial port so that all i need to do is
plug in a a notebook via the serial port to debug it.

I know about the getty+init. But that only works after it goes
multi-user so it isnt very useful. Lilo in linux has an option
to display and bootup control on serial port. Is there similar
option in FreeBSD?

-James Seng