Re: supported serial boot-time console?

["Arne P. Boettger" <apb_(_at_)_wohnheim_(_dot_)_fh-wedel_(_dot_)_de>]

Philipp Buehler <OpenBSD_(_at_)_fips_(_dot_)_de> wrote:
> On 24/07/2002, Arne P. Boettger <apb_(_at_)_wohnheim_(_dot_)_fh-wedel_(_dot_)_de> wrote To misc_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org:
>> There's only one drawback in my opinion: You only get boot messages,
>> no boot> prompt. But I've read about the possibility to compile boot
>> so that it can also take input from the serial console.
> 
> You get a boot>, I am using this for all rack machines.
> Maybe you want to set a higher timeout before the kernel image is read
> from disk, or you want to fix your terminal in use (real vt220 here)

Okay - that may well be. I had a "boot bsd" in boot.conf which was
probably left from trying to get a serial console working with a bad
cable. The Box boots without that line, so probably you'r right
about the timeout, because I use Solaris tip which exits between
boot and kernel messages.
I just take your word that it works and check it out later today,
with some other terminal emulation program.

Ciao, Arne.
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