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From: sclawson@lal.cs.utah.edu (steve clawson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: remote console (tip line?)
Date: 3 Sep 1994 07:12:51 GMT
Organization: University of Utah
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Message-ID: <3497lj$cvf@magus.cs.utah.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lal.cs.utah.edu
I just got NetBSD-current up and running on an intel box and now
want to do some looking around in the kernel. Is there any way to set
up a remote console? (ie. redirect the console to one of the serial
lines, then use tip). Since I won't always physically be anywhere
near my development machine, it'd be nice to be able to recover the
machine if the kernel I just built and installed dies upon reboot (or
even be able to specify which kernel to boot from remotely). Is this
possible on a pc? How about the bootblocks? Could you set things so
that if DTR is set on a serial port it'd send the console there (of
course then it'd have to tell the kernel where the console was...)
thanks,
--
// stephen clawson sclawson@schnapps.cs.utah.edu
// university of utah