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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!knews.uk0.vbc.net!news.uk0.vbc.net!neptune.fast.net.uk!sean From: sean@neptune.fast.net.uk (Sean B Purdy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Serial Console Date: 18 Dec 96 15:04:11 GMT Organization: the beach.... Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32b807eb.0@news.fast.net.uk> Reply-To: sean@fastnet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: news.fast.net.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32749 Hi, I'm trying to get FreeBSD to use a serial console when booting. This works fine as long as you press -h at the PC terminal first. Unfortunately, next time you boot, it forgets about the -h and boots on the PC console instead of the serial console. As I'm trying to hook the serial console up to a terminal server, this is somewhat of a disadvantage. I think you have to fiddle with the bootblocks to get it to do this properly - anybody have any ideas? Thanks, Sean -- Sean B Purdy, system administrator sean@fastnet.co.uk > Danstar's Third Law: The processing power of a computer is inversely > proportional to the user's actual need and proportional to their seniority. - quoted by Mark Brady