Serial Access

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Freitag, 8. Juli 2005 00:16 schrieb Frank de Bot:
> Hi,
>
> My server support by bios remote access via the serial port. Configured
> it, bios shows up on my terminal client. But as soon the FreeBSD has
> been loaded. (Last message I get through was: "Press [enter] to boot
> immedialty".
> Is it needed for FreeBSD to take over the serial console from here, or
> can it continue to show things without the help of FreeBSD?

You have to tell the kernel to use the serial port as console. You can do 
so by adding the line "console=comconsole" to /boot/loader.conf or 
instruct the first stage loader to use serail console with the command 
'echo -h > /boot.config'
For serial port configuration you may also want to have a look at the 
sysctl machdep.conspeed and to the /etc/make.conf option 
BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT and BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED, both compile time 
variables.
If you want to have a login on the serial line you also have to enable a 
getty in /etc/ttys.

Best regards,

-Harry

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