From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 2:23:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998DE14DDD for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 02:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:26:18 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C110027617968A@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: "'mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com'" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: serial console: /etc/ttys modification needed? Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:20:37 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com [SMTP:mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 1:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: serial console: /etc/ttys modification needed? > > Dear BSDers: > > The FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE boot disk allows me to install the OS via > a serial console, that is very nice. However after the installation, > the kernel does not probe for serial console anymore. So I have to > rebuild the kernel by adding a line in the configuration file: > > device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty flags 0x20 irq 4 > > It boots from serial console, but the login prompt does not appear. > After I modify /etc/ttys as follows, and it does. > > # console none unknown off secure > console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > > My question is, why do I need to modify the file? Why it is not needed > with "real" console? Thanks. [ML] Because, otherwise the console output goes to vt0, and vt0 is already supplied with it's getty line. /Marino > Michael Wang > http://www.mindspring.com/~mwang > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message