On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: > > [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] > > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml > > > Log: > > > Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention > > > ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the > > > boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding > > > the boot blocks may be the only option. > > > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images? > > That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is > present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end > up sending their output to the serial console.
OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here. Never mind.
> We could use -D though, that
> would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h)
> to force sysinstall to use the serial console.
That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before! It would
help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build
custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though.
Ceri
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