Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:40:53 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... Message-ID: <199501191640.RAA28150@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199501190654.BAA00363@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Jan 19, 95 01:54:48 am
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As Wankle Rotary Engine wrote:
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| Second, there are incidental problems involved with booting with a serial
| port as a console. For one thing, you have to remember to edit /etc/ttys
| properly before you bring the system up multi-user for the first time, or
| you won't get a login prompt. ...
| Putting a getty on 'console' is really the nice way to do it, but
| there are a few small complications:
It is said that it's not a good idea to enable a getty on /dev/console.
We would need some install-time or /etc/rc-time automagic that
auto-enables the getty on tty00 in /etc/ttys if the systems happens to
run a serial console. Perhaps cons.c should emit some string that
identifies on which console the system is running; this could be later
looked up with dmesg and a bit of sed magic.
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