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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!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!infoshare!reptiles.org!ctmsd2!gts!bdb From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: Booting with serial console Message-ID: <DvBvx0.87J@GTS.Net> Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com> <Dv8wwH.9x8@gts.net> <4ticuk$4qo@innocence.interface-business.de> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:29:23 GMT Lines: 37 In article <4ticuk$4qo@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: |bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) 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? | |> 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... | |It has even been available in 386BSD 0.1, if my memory serves me well, |and has been calle "options COMCONSOLE" all the time (which is almost |obsolete now in FreeBSD). The only thing we've been adding in FreeBSD |was the serial bootblocks, allowing you to even see the bootprompt on |the first serial line. | |(Alas, the automagic selection between serial and graphics console |from within the bootblocks depending on the existance of a keyboard |doesn't work right yet.) I'm not surprised to hear that - some BIOS implementations are fairly finicky about the keyboard, sometimes hilariously so: No keyboard found Press <F1> to continue... -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario 1 416 699 1868 a /i/ Internet: bdb@gts.org Uucp: ...!gts!bdb `\o\-e "The Gates Motel - users check in but they never check out" _< /_ - Windfall 95