I'm playing with PXE and pxeboot. I have a question about
setting the serial console option. The PC BIOS reports
'No Keyboard Present', but when PXE boots, BTX reports
console as internal keyboard/video. So, I'm looking at
hard coding a serial console into BTX. Normally, you
put the -h option into /boot.conf, but PXE doesn't
read that. I tried putting console=comconsole into
/boot/loader.rc, but it didn't work quite right.
I modified src/sys/boot/i386/common/conf.c and
removed the vidconsole option and that worked.
I could set the flags in the kernel to 0x20 to
force serial and that worked.
I'd like a more 'supported' option. That allowed
me access to BTX before booting the kernel. Does
anyone have a suggestion? Is there a /etc/make.conf
option I could set?
Thanks.
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