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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!ntuix.ntu.ac.sg!raffles.technet.sg!einstein.technet.sg!jseng From: jseng@technet.sg (James Seng) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Booting up via serial port Date: 22 Aug 1995 04:27:01 GMT Organization: Technet, Singapore Lines: 12 Message-ID: <41bmal$3el@raffles.technet.sg> NNTP-Posting-Host: jseng@einstein.technet.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] What i am trying to do is to make my freebsd box a delicated router. It get very troublesome if i need to attach a keyboard and monitor to the router whenever i need to check on it. I will prefer that it can bootup via the serial port so that all i need to do is plug in a a notebook via the serial port to debug it. I know about the getty+init. But that only works after it goes multi-user so it isnt very useful. Lilo in linux has an option to display and bootup control on serial port. Is there similar option in FreeBSD? -James Seng