From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 13 9:20:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from home.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE10237B41C for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from winbloat (winbloat.24cl.home [10.0.1.10]) by home.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C242B27E for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:20:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <200201131220270522.006B8FB4@smtp.24cl.home> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:20:27 -0500 From: "Mike Miller" To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for handbook section 15.6 (Serial console) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, First of all, this section of the documention was excellent in helping me= to set up serial access for my rack-mount FreeBSD server. I did run into one hurdle that I think should be mentioned in the handbook.= My default install of FreeBSD (4.4 release, from the CD-ROM) did not= enable a serial console in /etc/ttys. On my serial terminal I saw the= boot messages, but the serial output stopped just before I would have seen= the login prompt. I was stumped for a while, then I remembered the= /etc/ttys file and decided to give it a try. I enabled a serial console= and everything worked fine. May I suggest that section 15.6 mention that at least one serial console be= enabled in the file /etc/ttys in order for the serial console to work= fully up through the login prompt? Many thanks! Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message