How do I boot 6.0-BETA2 iso with rs232 console?

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Tue Aug 30 11:47:21 GMT 2005


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:45:53PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:15:21PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > > AMD64 machine, booting
> > > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  50087936 Aug 22 17:57 6.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso
> > > from a dvd.
> > > 
> > > Console is rs-232, 19200 baud.
> > 
> > I finally figured out to type "boot -h" at the okay prompt,
> > and then it starts printing the usual info about devices found,
> > at the wrong baud rate.
> > 
> > How do I set the baud rate?
> 
> Compile time alas...
> 
> Add BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200 to /etc/make.conf

Erhm, hmm, that's only for the boot loaders I guess...

Marc
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