From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 19 09:02:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA26074 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:02:46 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA26067 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 09:02:35 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28354; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:00:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id SAA14981 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 18:00:54 +0100 Received: by bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA28150; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:40:54 +0100 From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) Message-Id: <199501191640.RAA28150@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 17:40:53 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199501190654.BAA00363@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Jan 19, 95 01:54:48 am X-Phone: +49-351-8141 137 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1019 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wankle Rotary Engine wrote: | | | 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. -- cheers, J"org work: --- no longer --- private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)