On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:33:41PM -0500, bob wrote:
> I have netbsd 1.6.1 running sweet on a couple of alphas.  One has a good 
> PCI vga card that works just fine.
> Now I am trying to take the plunge into i386 netbsd....
> I have installed 1.6.1 from ISO image,  I installed it to support the 
> video console. BUT
> upon rebooting, I have a problem with the getty missing messages.
> I saw some notes from folks about this problem, and the notes said to 
> rebuild the kernel for serial console.
> On the alpha, I can disconnect keyboard, monitor, and use serial 
> console, plug in the keyboard and video and mouse, and run vga console.
> bottom line question - can I configure the kernel on the i386 version to 
> do the same thing?

Yes, at the boot promt just type
consdev com0
at this point the boot loader prompt should appear on com0.
Type 'boot' here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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