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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.171.6.16!li.net!usenet From: David Hoelzer <dhoelzer@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: serial console & NetBSD/sparc Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:13:27 -0400 Organization: LI Net (Long Island Network) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <334D11A7.2E26@gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5i46jt$931@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Reply-To: dhoelzer@gnu.ai.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lisuser106.li.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) To: Sean Sweda <sweda@ren.us.itd.umich.edu> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5789 Sean Sweda wrote: > > 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? Actually, if you simply boot the sparc up with no keyboard attached and your other machine or a terminal attached with a nullmodem cable, your console will be automagically routed through the tty. If you want to do it by hand, you can do it from the sun monitor with a setenv, but I forget what the parm is.