Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:16:23 -0800 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I kill the console? (or how to make nullconsole work) Message-ID: <424A5247.1050401@cloudview.com>
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I'm running 5.4 BETA1 on a soekris 4801 board. The unit emulates a console on a serial port. I want to use the serial port for my GPS so I want the console messages from BSD to go away - an in particular I want BSD to ignore inbound data during the boot process. So far: I've used the regular mbr so that I don't get the disk prompt I've added "boot" to loader.rc before the beastie call so that it doesn't display the menu Both these change work However if I add boot.config with -n -m the system doesn't boot (and I can't tell why because I have no messages!) If I set console="nullconsole" the system doesn't boot and again I can't see why. Does anybody have any wisdom on how to get nullconsole to work? John
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