Figuring out what the Right Thing is for handling disconnected keyboards seems to be highly debatable. Until someone comes along and solves the problem the way that you want it, one workaround to investigate is USB keyboards.
Scott
Nicole wrote:
*SIGH* No what I want is NO serial console. DO NOT FOR ANY REASON turn off/not resp ond to the keyboard port
Nicole
On 01-Sep-03 Unnamed Administration sources reported Scott Long said :
Aaron Wohl wrote:
My notes on getting a serial console at 115200
-must be com1 -com1 must be at port 0x3F8 irq 4 -in bios set the port and irq as above -in bios set serial redirection to com1 -in bios set baud rate 115200 -in bios set RTS/CTS flow control -edit (or create) /etc/make.conf to add these lines: BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8 BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= 115200 -cd /sys/boot -make clean -make -make install -fdisk -B No im not kidding. Part of the boot knowing baud rate loader lives in the main disk boot block. -cd /boot -edit loader.conf -add a line: console=comconsole -edit /boot.config make it read (with a return after it): -Dh (the above is minus D h return, thats 4 characters) -cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf -edit PASODOBLE (or whatever your kernconf is called) -add: options CONSPEED=115200 # Console Redirection -cd /usr/src -make buildkernel KERNCONF=PASODOBLE -make installkernel KERNCONF=PASODOBLE -reboot -pray
At one time I was working on patches to the loader to make the console speed configurable. At the time, at least, I didn't see any evidence that the settings were stored in the boot0 block, but maybe I was wrong. In any case, finishing this up is on my TODO list.
Scott
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