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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console on serial port?
Date: 7 Jun 1997 14:32:33 GMT
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pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu (Peter M. Chen) wrote:

> No problem.  Check out /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/README.serial

Bah, i eventually forgot that this file does even exist.  There are
now a number of other options (since the keyboard probe didn't prove
to be failsafe, given the crappy design used in PC technology).  See
also the Makefile in the same directory for these options.

Also, Matt probably doesn't want to make it dependant on the existance
of a keyboard at all, as it seems to me.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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