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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!fs1.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!souva From: souva@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Subject: Re: Booting with serial console In-Reply-To: bdb@GTS.Net's message of Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:57:52 GMT Message-ID: <SOUVA.96Jul30162023@aibn55.astro.uni-bonn.de> Sender: news@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Nntp-Posting-Host: aibn55 Reply-To: isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de Organization: Radioastronomisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, FRG References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com> <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:20:23 GMT Lines: 27 In article <Dv8wwH.9x8@GTS.Net> bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) writes: In article <4tb62a$iav@news.hcl.com>, Mike Frisch <frisch@mailhub.hcl.com> wrote: |In article <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net>, darrylb@demon.net 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? I was under the |impression this was a feature of the hardware (like on my Suns), not of |the operating system. 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 is possible. use options COMCONSOLE -is -- Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de) "HIFI-Geräte müßten Steckplätze wie Computer haben. Dann könnte man sich das Gehäuse nach dem Design aussuchen und die Technik nach Leistung..." craven@rlyeh.muc.de