From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 07:16:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8361C16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:16:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4314143D39 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:16:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC5B34DA10 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E0634DA0F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:16:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <424A5247.1050401@cloudview.com> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:16:23 -0800 From: John Pettitt Organization: CloudView Photographic User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack Subject: How do I kill the console? (or how to make nullconsole work) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:16:24 -0000 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