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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: serial terminal as console? Date: 30 Oct 1996 08:57:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5575a6$9li@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <553u6r$i9l@cnn.exu.ericsson.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E exujbm@exu.ericsson.se (Ben Madison) wrote: > 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? Yes. If you type `-h' at the boot prompt, you'll toggle between the serial and graphics console. To make the serial console the default, you should best: cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot vi Makefile # there's a commented-out option make clean all install disklabel -B sd0 # or wd0, if that's your disk -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)