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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.nstn.ca!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!infoshare!whome!gts!bdb From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: Booting with serial console Message-ID: <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:57:52 GMT Lines: 21 In article <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com>, Mike Frisch <frisch@mailhub.hcl.com> wrote: |In article <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net>, darrylb@demon.net wrote: |>I need to be able to boot Netbsd i386 from a serial console, ie no monitor |>connected. | | Is this even possible with an Intel machine? I was under the |impression this was a feature of the hardware (like on my Suns), not of |the operating system. FreeBSD has been able to do this for some time - it would be quite useful for NetBSD to be able to do this as well... -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario 1 416 699 1868 a /i/ Internet: bdb@gts.org Uucp: ...!gts!bdb `\o\-e "Been there, done that, got blood on the T-3" _< /_ - Dharma Chameleon