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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:10:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To:        scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [4.1-STABLE] Serial console "hanging" on boot ...
Message-ID:  <200008162110.QAA19236@aurora.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008161805000.48583-100000@thelab.hub.org> from "The Hermit Hacker" at Aug 16, 2000 06:05:51 PM

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> > Ummm... "try turning it on in /etc/ttys"  :-)
> > 
> > Lack of getty is the typical cause of not getting a login: prompt.  :-)
> 
> d'oh, it can't be that simple ... can it? :(  just set 'console' to on in
> /etc/ttys?  I probably had it and overwrote it without realizing when I
> did a mergemaster :(

Actually, I'm not at all sure you're supposed to use "console".  I use
ttyd0, here.
-- 
... Joe

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