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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$iav@news.hcl.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:57:52 GMT
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In article <4tb62a$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...


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