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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:01:23 -0600
From:      "Minnesota Slinky" <mnslinky@yahoo.com>
To:        "'Ceri Davies'" <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Headless System via serial port?
Message-ID:  <000c01c3c3ed$de0152c0$6401a8c0@Nomad>
In-Reply-To: <20031216144417.GD652@submonkey.net>

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Hey!  That worked.  I have it setup as -Dh in my boot.config file and
added the lines you mentioned.  Everything works great!

Thanks greatly for the help!

Eric F Crist
President
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(612) 998-3588



-----Original Message-----
From: Ceri Davies [mailto:setantae@submonkey.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:44 AM
To: Minnesota Slinky
Cc: 'Bill Schoolcraft'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Headless System via serial port?


On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:00:14AM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> Is that all you did to get it working?  It goes through the boot
> process just fine over the terminal, but kernel hands the login back
> over to vidconsole again right away.  I even tried changing the -P to
> a -Dh, still nothing.  Same effect.

You also need to turn on ttyd0 in /etc/ttys:

ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on secure

Then send init a HUP.

Ceri

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