From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 10 13:31:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED6314DDF for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01059; Mon, 10 May 1999 13:28:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905102028.NAA01059@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "James D. Butt 'J.D'" Cc: mike@smith.net.au, Tom , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial Console does it work?? (Plea for help) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 15:16:15 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:28:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > /boot.config contains > > -D -h > > (though I have tried -P but I can not use it because the paticular bios I > have does not support booting without a keyboard ..grr..) Get a new board. 8) > My kernel config file > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x20 tty irq 4 That should be 0x10. The 'force' flag only exists to allow you to select between multiple candidate devices. > #cuaa0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > I can get a login to spawn if I uncomment the above line.. In all past > 2.2.x releases I was able to use ttyd0 instead of cuaa0?? Seems strange > but hey... We use ttyd0 on the freebsd.org cluster. It Just Works. freefall:~>grep ttyd0 /etc/ttys ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup on secure -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message