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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 13:28:49 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "James D. Butt 'J.D'" <jbutt@mwci.net>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Serial Console does it work?? (Plea for help) 
Message-ID:  <199905102028.NAA01059@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 15:16:15 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9905101502280.2057-100000@boom.firecracker.com> 

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> /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

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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