>> is there no way to make the two consoles work as one?
>
>What do you mean "two consoles" ?
>
>Cyclone firmware accepts inputs from both fcom and pckbd,
>and prints messages to both fcom and vga.
>But the kenrel uses one of them for console.

it seems that after netbsd starts to boot, it stops using the serial
console that the firmware was using.  perhaps i misunderstood the faq,
but i thought it meant that the other serial port became active at
that point.

as it stands, once netbsd appears to start to boot (i've not seen any
evidence of this yet), the serial console i was using stops displaying
anything, or responding to input.

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