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From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Booting with serial console
In-Reply-To: darrylb@demon.net's message of Fri, 26 Jul 96 9:41:21 +0100
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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 12:44:30 GMT
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In article <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> darrylb@demon.net writes:
I need to be able to boot Netbsd i386 from a serial console, ie no monitor
connected.
I believe I need to use the disklabel command with the bootserial and serialboot options, but exactly how I'm not sure.
errrrr... no. Thats a complete different issue... that would boot you
from a serial terminal line connected to a punched tape reader, if in
existence anymore. No fun at 300 baud (30 bytes/s).
What you need, is a kernel with (maybe)
options COMCONSOLE
defined.
Regards,
Ignatios Souvatzis
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