Re: serial console installation of 6.1-BETA4

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 05:46:59PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:


is the above supposed to work? I tried to follow what is written in the installation
manual: unplugging the keyboard does nothing, booting with 'boot -h' gives me all the
kernel's device probing messages on both the serial console and the normal console,
but after 'mounting root from ...'
sysinstall appears on the normal console.

loader.conf:
# serial console
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
console="comconsole"

WBR
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