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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!uunet!in2.uu.net!194.159.1.11!news.clues.com!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!viewp.demon.co.uk!viewp.demon.co.uk!viewp.demon.co.uk!richard From: richard@viewp.demon.co.uk (Richard Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serial Console Date: 24 Dec 1996 01:18:49 GMT Organization: Viewpoint Systems Lines: 42 Message-ID: <59nb1p$e6f@viewp.demon.co.uk> References: <32b807eb.0@news.fast.net.uk> <59eukp$a46@corn.cso.niu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: viewp-le.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: viewp.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33152 woodward@cs.niu.edu wrote: : Sean B Purdy (sean@neptune.fast.net.uk) wrote: : : Hi, : : I'm trying to get FreeBSD to use a serial console when booting. This : : works fine as long as you press -h at the PC terminal first. : : Unfortunately, next time you boot, it forgets about the -h and boots on : : the PC console instead of the serial console. I use a wyse 60 (in VT100 mode, 9600/8/N/1) as my console on a 2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD system the console is attached to com1. Here is the relavant section of my kernel config file; # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr # Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver #device vt0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector pcrint #options "PCVT_FREEBSD=210" # pcvt running on FreeBSD 2.1 #options XSERVER # include code for XFree86 # Remove this line for VGA Console options COMCONSOLE device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 10 vector siointr #device sio3 at isa? port "IO_COM4" tty irq 3 vector siointr Hope this helps Richard -- Richard Chapman | Tel 0370 513605 | e-mail: richard@viewp.demon.co.uk Theatre Technican - Lighting Designer - Sound Engineer - Unix Systems Admin.