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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting up via serial port Date: 22 Aug 1995 09:19:32 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <41c7f5$qj5@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41bmal$3el@raffles.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:41bmal$3el@raffles.technet.sg jseng@technet.sg (James Seng) wrote: >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. No problem. You can boot with the -h flag to use the serial console, and just as soon as we re-enable it by default (there were some teething problems that made it hose some people's keyboards, so we didn't do so for 2.0.5) it will drop to a serial console in the absence of a VGA card automatically. In the meantime, you can rebuild the bootblocks in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot with FORCE_COMCONSOLE on (see the Makefile) to make your particular system do so. Jordan