> From: Lucky Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> 1) Is there a way to prevent the FreeBSD kernel from ever 
> switching into
> this different video mode, thus allowing me to continue to use the
> built-in serial terminal? The machine is a headless server, I 
> don't care
> if video works as long as I can pull out a serial terminal.

enable the comconsole option, set the baud rate.
As for the colours etc, our machines have BIOS that do that
too... I added a:

set console=comconsole

\ What's all this about then? It resets the console (to fix up the bios
\ colour change), and outputs a banner.
cr .( ^[c)

to the start of /boot/loader.rc

which is a vt100 reset code. This isn't a general purpose
solution, but works for me. Our BIOS also changes the colour
just as it exits, leaving it black on black :)

--don

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