*BSD News Article 81729


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!newshost.convex.com!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!b04a08!not-for-mail
From: exujbm@exu.ericsson.se (Ben Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: serial terminal as console?
Date: 29 Oct 1996 03:38:03 GMT
Organization: Ericsson North America Inc.
Lines: 14
Message-ID: <553u6r$i9l@cnn.exu.ericsson.se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: b04a08.exu.ericsson.se
X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]


Hi...  I'm running a FreeBSD 2.1.5R box with one serial terminal,
and have recently found myself headless (long story, involving a 
move to Japan and a monitor not worth the cost of shipping).  Is
there a serial console driver--something that would let me watch
the bootup, enter flags and such, and see the output from halt(8),
all from my serial terminal?

Thanks!

--
Ben Madison                                        Ericsson Inc.
exujbm@exu.ericsson.se                        Richardson, Texas
jbm@computek.net                                            USA