On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:16:46AM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote:
| Henning Brauer wrote:
| >there are multiport usb-serial adapters. and of course you can use
| >multiple of them.
| >
|
| This may be really really stupid, but for Mac minis that have no serial
| ports listed in their dmesg (e.g:
| http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/openbsd-on-intel-mac-mini/) could you
| use a USB-Serial adapter and place that directive in /etc/boot.conf to
| redirect the console output? Nowt about that in boot.conf's man page:
|
| set [varname [value]]
| ..
| ..
| tty Active console device name (e.g., com0, com1, pc0).
|
I'm afraid not. It must be a "real" serial port, supported by the BIOS
and all that stuff. You can run a getty on a USB->serial adapter, but
console must be the real thing.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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