From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 26 12: 7: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gactr.uga.edu (mail.gactr.uga.edu [128.192.37.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D15F37B407 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu) Received: (qmail 24656 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2001 19:06:54 -0000 Received: from qat.noc.nat (HELO gactr.uga.edu) ([10.10.100.125]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jul 2001 19:06:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3B606A4E.525950BF@gactr.uga.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:06:54 -0400 From: "Robin P. Blanchard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Reichert Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: serial console woes References: <3B60464F.229F72C6@gactr.uga.edu> <20010726123631.B79454@numachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > i've followed the instructions per the handbook for setting > > up a headless box with serial console. i keep running > > into the same problem. i see the box boot (via the serial link), > > and all relevant kernel messages are displayed via the serial link; > > but i never get a login prompt. it's as if only kernel messages are being > > redirected to the serial link and i don't really have a console. > > > > i tried forcing the serial port to be console via by adding > > 0x30 to its flags in the kernel config and still the same results. > > > > i've also played with all imagineable combinations of -P -D and -h > > in /boot.config > > Do you have getty running on either ttyd0 or cuaa0? that was it... thanks! all's well now. -- ------------------------------------ Robin P. Blanchard IT Program Specialist Georgia Center for Continuing Ed. fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message