From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 14 3:16:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk [194.128.162.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FCA14EFC; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 03:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk ([193.195.56.225]) by eastwood.aldigital.algroup.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA00304; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:16:12 GMT Message-ID: <387F057A.1B111CC5@algroup.co.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:16:10 +0000 From: Adam Laurie Organization: A.L. Group plc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cjclark@home.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console disappears after reboot References: <200001131158.DAA01817@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > So in summary; there's nothing that will "decide there is no built-in > console" unless you explicitly tell it to go look for itself. Anything > that's causing the system to talk to a serial console is at the admin's > request. At this point in time, there is no way to force a change of > console once the system is up and running. *, Thanks for all helpful suggestions... It turns out to be a mobo thing - the SBCs we are now using act like notebooks and switch off the VGA port, not the O/S... Apologies for waste of [insert unit of geek here]... cheers, Adam -- Adam Laurie Tel: +44 (181) 742 0755 A.L. Digital Ltd. Fax: +44 (181) 742 5995 Voysey House Barley Mow Passage http://www.aldigital.co.uk London W4 4GB mailto:adam@algroup.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM PGP key on keyservers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message