Re: Ways to report trace when boot panics [Was NetBSD 7.0 i386 panic during boot]

[Timo Buhrmester <fstd.lkml%gmail.com@localhost>]

> no-one has RS232 on anything modern
In my experience, this isn't true.  Granted, it might be for Laptops,
but even modern desktop/workstation hardware tends to have RS232 -- 
they just don't expose the physical connector on the backside.

I have yet to see an mainboard that wouldn't have a 9-pin header
(usually labeled COM0 or COM1) were all you need is a cable like
http://www.frontx.com/pro/p1022_030p2.gif to make the port accessible