From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 17 16:17:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amsfep15-int.chello.nl (amsfep15-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2CA337B403 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootsr.com ([212.187.13.238]) by amsfep15-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.03.06 201-253-122-118-106-20010523) with ESMTP id <20011017231735.ISUG12294.amsfep15-int.chello.nl@rootsr.com>; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:17:35 +0200 Message-ID: <3BCE118F.8070201@rootsr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 01:17:35 +0200 From: Hans de Hartog Organization: rootsr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010621 X-Accept-Language: nl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Hardie Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console References: <20011009113258.D35681-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <3BCE08A9.4050007@rootsr.com> <3BCE0D3C.6010409@rootsr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Hardie wrote: > I've done both of those. Still does not work. > OK, what I also did (but that should only effect things after booting): in /etc/ttys set all ttyv?'s to "off" and switch console to "on" so you will see the login prompt on your "console". I have no suggestions anymore to make your COM1 work as a console. Anyone else? I'm really curious because I configured quite some servers under FreeBSD 4.? this way and never had trouble to make COM1 work as the console. Hans de Hartog. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message