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)?
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Index: chapter.sgml
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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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