Subject: serial consoles and BIOS console redirection
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/19/2002 14:53:52
Greetings,
I'm trying to understand why NetBSD chooses COM2: as the
console any time I attempt to turn on the BIOS ``console
redirection'', and set it at COM1:
If I use the ``normal'' boot blocks, I'll get the boot
loader's output on the BIOS console, but then the kernels output
is never seen.
Using the ``serial'' boot blocks, all of the BIOS output
goes to COM1:, and then the boot blocks (and the kernel) output
everything to COM2:.
Is there any way to convince everything to share the
same console port? I hate the idea of having to use two
terminal server ports to manage one box.
Thanks,
Eric
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