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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console on serial port?
Date: 11 Jun 1997 00:05:29 GMT
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In article <5njjsm$dnh@news.gvsu.edu>,
behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes:
> Heiko Blume (Heiko.Blume@bln.sel.alcatel.de) wrote:
>
>: is it possible to make the serial more consolish,
>: i.e. also put the boot prompt on the serial?
>: and (gasp!) the adaptec messages?
>
> Yep. If you set BOOT_PROBE_KEYBOARD or BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE, everything
> from the boot prompt on will appear on your serial terminal. I use it,
> it's great. (Now to try removing my video card) :)
I discovered that if you run without video hardware, you must
disable the sc0 device. It does not actually probe the hardware
and just merrily assumed that video is present. Then later when
anything touches a /dev/vtXX... POW!
You would also have to fix /etc/ttys...
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Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON