Install the boot blocks for com ports.

I've done this and it all works like a charm.

James

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>Can anyone tell me how to make this work? I managed to get com0 set up and
>run a getty on my serial port, but I want it to be my boot console too,
>since I'm setting this up on an Intel ISP1100, which runs without a video
>card (optionally). Its BIOS can talk via the first serial port, so I
>should be able to dump wscons (there being no video device for it to talk
>to...) and use the serial port for everything.
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>Sadly, man 4 options doesn't seem to cover the serial console options, and
>my attempts at making it work on various i386 machines lying around caused
>a variety of crashes. I figure I'm missing something. Anybody done this
>before?
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