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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!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!ren.us.itd.umich.edu!not-for-mail From: sweda@ren.us.itd.umich.edu (Sean Sweda) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: serial console & NetBSD/sparc Date: 5 Apr 1997 00:33:01 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5i46jt$931@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ren.us.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5755 I've been a long-time NetBSD/mac68k user, and I recently installed NetBSD/sparc on a Sparc 2. My question is simply this: How do I go about setting it up for a serial console boot? I'm assuming that I'll have to change an environement variable in the PROM monitor, but do I have to pass any flags to the kernel at boot? Do I need to edit /etc/ttys as well? thanks in advance! Sean -- Sean Sweda : Owner, Motor City Marauders sweda@us.itd.umich.edu : 1994 Internet Baseball League Champs http://www.ibl.org/~sweda : http://www.ibl.org