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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!alpha.sky.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-22.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting with serial console Date: 31 Jul 1996 19:34:30 -0500 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4tou2m$ddg@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com> <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> <SOUVA.96Jul30162023@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com In article <SOUVA.96Jul30162023@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de>, Ignatios Souvatzis <isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de> wrote: >In article <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) writes: > > 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... > >It is possible. use > >options COMCONSOLE > There are three options that need to be set. The COMPORT option sets the com port for the console, the COMSPEED option sets the console speed. I was trying to get this working earlier this year. In spite of the implications to the otherwisw, I had to set all three in my config file. P.S. By the time I got to where I was ready to try it, I had found a monitor and didn't need to do it anymore. I kind of wish I had tried it just to be able to give conclusive answers. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) *bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that doesn't want to do it...."