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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting with serial console Date: 29 Jul 1996 13:05:24 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4ticuk$4qo@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com> <Dv8wwH.9x8@gts.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) wrote: > |>I need to be able to boot Netbsd i386 from a serial console, ie no monitor > |>connected. > | > | Is this even possible with an Intel machine? > FreeBSD has been able to do this for some time - > it would be quite useful for NetBSD to be able to > do this as well... It has even been available in 386BSD 0.1, if my memory serves me well, and has been calle "options COMCONSOLE" all the time (which is almost obsolete now in FreeBSD). The only thing we've been adding in FreeBSD was the serial bootblocks, allowing you to even see the bootprompt on the first serial line. (Alas, the automagic selection between serial and graphics console from within the bootblocks depending on the existance of a keyboard doesn't work right yet.) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j