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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2000 19:31:21 -0300 (ADT)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [4.1-STABLE] Serial console "hanging" on boot ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008161930480.48583-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <200008162110.QAA19236@aurora.sol.net>

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odd, now I get a login prompt, but I still have a keyboard that is dead ;(

and you are right, it has to be ttyd0 ..


On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Joe Greco wrote:

> > > 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
> 

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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