From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 18 10:05:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA18923 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA18897 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:04:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA12337 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:03:21 -0600 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma012320; Tue Feb 18 12:03:01 1997 Received: from milo.lodgenet.com (milo.lodgenet.com [10.0.11.142]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id MAA24930 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:04:23 -0600 Received: from milo.lodgenet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by milo.lodgenet.com (8.8.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA10334 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:04:08 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199702181804.MAA10334@milo.lodgenet.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Serial Console Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 12:04:06 -0600 From: John Prince Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When boot is compiled with BOOT_PROBE_KEYBOARD, the serial console detection works fine. However /dev/console now goes nowhere.. I have tried this on 2.15 and 2.2-BETA_A. A quick fix has been to : mv /dev/console /dev/console.old ln -s /dev/cuaa0 /dev/console Should the kernel be handling the change? Thanks John Prince -- johnp@lodgenet.com jprince@iw.net