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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:02:07 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serial console
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012050001230.2611-100000@sherman.spotnet.org>
In-Reply-To: <20001205044353.4A31E3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>

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Dima Dorfman wrote:

>David Talkington wrote:
>> I managed to get boot messages displayed to the serial console, but
>> then the login prompt goes to the internal console.  No opportunity is
>> given for login to the serial console except during the boot process.  
>
>Is ttyd0 marked 'off' in /etc/ttys?  It is by default.  If it is,
>change 'off' to 'on' to make it look like this:
>
>  ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   cons25  on  secure
>
>(yes, I changed dialup->cons25, you don't have to if you don't want
>to)
>
>Note that this won't stop a login prompt from showing up on the
>internal console.  You can have both.  If you don't want it, mark
>v0-v7 'off' in /etc/ttys.
>
>Once you're done with your modifications to /etc/ttys, either reboot
>or send sighup to init (`kill -1 1`).
>
>Hopefully that wasn't too confusing..

Not at all, but I seem to have hosed my boot loader completely.  =)  
I'll get back to you.

Thanks for the help --d




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