set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc
paul
Alan Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about
> setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports
> 'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports
> console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at
> hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you
> put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't
> read that. I tried putting console=comconsole into
> /boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right.
> I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and
> removed the vidconsole option and that worked.
> I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to
> force serial and that worked.
>
> I'd like a more 'supported' option. That allowed
> me access to BTX before booting the kernel. Does
> anyone have a suggestion? Is there a /etc/make.conf
> option I could set?
>
> Thanks.
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