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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.dacom.co.kr!bofh.dot!usenet.seri.re.kr!bofh.dot!news.cais.net!mr.net!newshub.tc.umn.edu!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: serial console problems Date: 14 Jun 1996 23:31:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4pssob$j31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4p9pbn$31o@news.b-1.de.contrib.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E src@B-1.de.Contrib.Net (Heiko Blume) wrote: > this should most probably go into the FAQ/Handbook. i've setup a serial > console like this: > > - make new kernel with "options COMCONSOLE" Overkill. The new bootblock should get you going. > - cd /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/ > - enable "-DFORCE_COMCONSOLE" in the Makefile > - make clean; make; make install > > - disklabel -B sd0 > also, the first text that appears on the serial console > is from the kernel itself. i don't get the boot block So you're still suffering from an old bootblock. A bootblock with ``serial console forced'' prints its messages on the serial console. You can toggle it back to the graphics console by -h. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)