docs/66117: Handbook Serial Console Page doesn't list how to recompile boot blocks.

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 7 22:30:31 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/66117; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jamin Brown <alec at gwi.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/66117: Handbook Serial Console Page doesn't list how to recompile boot blocks.
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:27:33 +0300

 > Add documentation that explains that:
 >
 > cd /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2
 > make clean
 > make all install
 
 There is documentation about doing exactly this thing a few lines below.
 Is a cross-reference ok (to avoid repeating things)?
 
 %%
 Index: chapter.sgml
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml,v
 retrieving revision 1.88
 diff -u -r1.88 chapter.sgml
 --- chapter.sgml	6 Jun 2004 18:17:07 -0000	1.88
 +++ chapter.sgml	7 Jul 2004 22:21:55 -0000
 @@ -2442,7 +2442,12 @@
  	  blocks:</para>
  
  	<programlisting>BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200</programlisting>
 -  
 +
 +	<para>Changing <makevar>BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED</makevar> in
 +	  <filename>make.conf</filename> might require building and
 +	  installing new boot blocks.
 +	  See <xref linkend="serialconsole-com2"> for details.</para>
 +
  	<para>If the serial console is configured in some other way than by
  	  booting with <option>-h</option>, or if the serial console used by
  	  the kernel is different from the one used by the boot blocks, then
 %%



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