On 2012-07-26, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > one last item, the machine I am using to testbed this doesn't have a dedicated > serial port (they no longer include those on commodity hardware anymore) so > having the output routed there is out.
-current can provide a full system console on a PCI serial port, setup is a bit fiddly as the boot loader doesn't enumerate devices itself, but it's not too bad - basically identify the i/o address using pcidump and set it in boot.conf with 'machine comaddr'. you would also need a login console on the relevant device via /etc/ttys, this is already possible in earlier releases, the new thing is the system console.
