Re: I386 USERS PLEASE READ: wscons

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.net>]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Henning Brauer:
> 
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> for first the usual "Tahnk you" for the great work - keep on!
> 
> In OpenBSd/i386 until 2.8-stable, there is one really annoying thing about
> headless servers: you can't enable support for the serial console at boot
> time (echo "set tty com0 > /etc/boot.conf) as the machine won't boot without
> a serial console attached then. This is caused by the BIOS and can only be
> avoided by accessing the serial ports directly (yes, assembler code...). It
> should be easy to port FreeBSDs sio.s (which accesses the ports directly) to
> OpenBSD, abd in fact I just started to do so.
> Does the change away pcvt address this issue too?

in fact this was fixed a while ago, you should upgrdae your
/boot and try again.

cu

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