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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!n3ott.istar!infoshare!reptiles.org!gts!bdb From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) Subject: Re: Booting with serial console Message-ID: <DvIJow.9xC@GTS.Net> Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> <SOUVA.96Jul30162023@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> <4tou2m$ddg@cynjut.neonramp.com> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:48:32 GMT Lines: 43 In article <4tou2m$ddg@cynjut.neonramp.com>, Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com> wrote: |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. Where is this documented? also, what code modules use these options? Plus I assume we are discussing the I386 branch (or is this part of common code)? -- ,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