Subject: Re: How to change serial baud rate on already installed bootblocks (netbsd-3-0-RELEASE)
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/02/2007 15:39:56
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:44:54PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:21:02PM +0200, Job Hanssen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > During the installation of netbsd-3-0-RELEASE on one of my machines (an
> > older system), I choose to set the baud rate on the serial bootblocks to
> > 38400. I would now like to change this to a more speedy setting of 115200.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how to proceed on this? Do I need to install a new
> > bootblock, or can I update the existing one?
>
> You need to reinstall them but it's easy:
>
> installboot -o console=com0,speed=115200 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
Actually this should work:
installboot -e -o speed=115200 /dev/rwd0a
David
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