From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 16 14:10:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E6537BD3E; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:10:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.3/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id QAA19236; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:10:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200008162110.QAA19236@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: [4.1-STABLE] Serial console "hanging" on boot ... To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "The Hermit Hacker" at Aug 16, 2000 06:05:51 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Ummm... "try turning it on in /etc/ttys" :-) > > > > Lack of getty is the typical cause of not getting a login: prompt. :-) > > d'oh, it can't be that simple ... can it? :( just set 'console' to on in > /etc/ttys? I probably had it and overwrote it without realizing when I > did a mergemaster :( Actually, I'm not at all sure you're supposed to use "console". I use ttyd0, here. -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message