From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 20 4:57:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wfdutil3gw.ml.com (wfdutil3f01.ml.com [206.3.74.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFB614D54 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com) Received: from ewfdav03.ml.com ([199.201.57.19]) by wfdutil3gw.ml.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/MLgwo-4.03) with SMTP id HAA24909 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 172.23.143.207 by ewfdav03.ml.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:53:06 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Received: by cicgload-fs1-p.tech.cicg.ml.com (8.8.8+Sun/ML55SMX-1.02) id HAA03264; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:57:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:57:22 -0400 (EDT) From: mwang@tech.cicg.ml.com (Michael Wang) Message-Id: <199906201157.HAA03264@cicgload-fs1-p.tech.cicg.ml.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: serial console: /etc/ttys modification needed? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear BSDers: The FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE boot disk allows me to install the OS via a serial console, that is very nice. However after the installation, the kernel does not probe for serial console anymore. So I have to rebuild the kernel by adding a line in the configuration file: device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty flags 0x20 irq 4 It boots from serial console, but the login prompt does not appear. After I modify /etc/ttys as follows, and it does. # console none unknown off secure console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure My question is, why do I need to modify the file? Why it is not needed with "real" console? Thanks. Michael Wang http://www.mindspring.com/~mwang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message