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From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console on serial port?
Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:29:52 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:

: 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.

True, however that file covered what I needed to know (including the bit
about COMCONSOLE, which (thankfully) I did not need to force.  I might
plug my keyboard back in again someday.) :)

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