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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: John Prince <johnp@lodgenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Serial Console
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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, John Prince wrote:

> 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. 

  Are you sure?  I've just done this recently on a 2.1.6 system, and
/dev/console was directed to the serial console.

> 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
> --
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> johnp@lodgenet.com
> jprince@iw.net
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Tom