Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > "Swapping them internally" would probably involve about 30 seconds of > work. It's not hard, really. 8) Yes I know I could have done that. Then reconfigured my getty's, my minicom etc. It's the principle of the thing - I prefer to bend the software to

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Justin Hawkins wrote: > > > > I understand it's not really a bug and perhaps is not worth the code > > effort. A note in the handbook might not go astray - I am sure a lot of > > people who need a COM2 console will

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-21 Thread Justin Hawkins
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > I'd say this is an expected result, not a known problem. It is doing > exactly what it is being told to (gibberish). Junk in, junk out. :-) Sure. > > Is there enough room in there for some code, which checks for this? IE if > > the first line outp

Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-20 Thread Justin Hawkins
Hi there, I've recently had .. ahem .. fun trying to get my headless FreeBSD box to spit messages at the console. I've got the kernel doing it right, but not the boot loaders. The boot loader will print to the serial device - but it won't load my kernel :-( I haven't exhausted all oppurtunities h