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From: sweda@ren.us.itd.umich.edu (Sean Sweda)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: serial console & NetBSD/sparc
Date: 5 Apr 1997 00:33:01 GMT
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I've been a long-time NetBSD/mac68k user, and I recently installed
NetBSD/sparc on a Sparc 2.  My question is simply this:  How do I go
about setting it up for a serial console boot?  I'm assuming that
I'll have to change an environement variable in the PROM monitor,
but do I have to pass any flags to the kernel at boot?  Do I need to
edit /etc/ttys as well?

thanks in advance!

Sean

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Sean Sweda                        :            Owner, Motor City Marauders
sweda@us.itd.umich.edu            :   1994 Internet Baseball League Champs
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