Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:07:50 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: ambrisko@tcs.com Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <199603120407.PAA28341@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> - Run getty on /dev/console and not on /dev/ttyv0, so I get a console >> getty no matter which way I boot. >Hmm, there was a saying the running getty on /dev/console used to be >totally broken. Bruce? Ever tried it lately? Not lately. I use syscons, which still has the hack of using a special minor device for the console so that /dev/console is a little different from /dev/vt0. I think there is nothing special for pcvt, so /dev/vt0 is the console. Bruce
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