From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 26 10:37:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4EB155D0 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA26399; Wed, 26 May 1999 13:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA98903; Wed, 26 May 1999 13:36:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:36:58 -0400 (EDT) To: "System Admin." Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serail port console In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14156.12441.43813.172444@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org System Admin. writes: > Hello All, > I just successfully installed 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD/Alpha into my > AlphaServer 400 4/233. Now I have little problem. My server doesn't have > video card so I have DEC terminal connected to the serial 1 on the server. > When the server boots up I can see all the messages up until it said: > > Initial rc.alpha initialization:. > rc.alpha configuring syscons: blank_time/etc/rc.alpha: cannot open > /dev/ttyv0: no such device or address. > > Local package initialization:. > Sun Mar 28 18:18:49 EST 1999 > > Then that's about it. It didn't go to the login prompt on the console but > I can telnet in and do everything I wanted to. How can I fix this problem? > I want to be able to login from console also. > Edit your /etc/ttys and replace: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure with: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure The send init a HUP, eg 'kill -HUP 1' Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message