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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
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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