From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 22: 2:14 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 22:02:12 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firefly.prairienet.org (firefly.prairienet.org [192.17.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226D437B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 22:02:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from sherman.spotnet.org (slip-69.prairienet.org [192.17.3.89]) by firefly.prairienet.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA02181; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:02:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:02:07 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington X-Sender: dtalk@sherman.spotnet.org To: Dima Dorfman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console In-Reply-To: <20001205044353.4A31E3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman wrote: >David Talkington wrote: >> I managed to get boot messages displayed to the serial console, but >> then the login prompt goes to the internal console. No opportunity is >> given for login to the serial console except during the boot process. > >Is ttyd0 marked 'off' in /etc/ttys? It is by default. If it is, >change 'off' to 'on' to make it look like this: > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" cons25 on secure > >(yes, I changed dialup->cons25, you don't have to if you don't want >to) > >Note that this won't stop a login prompt from showing up on the >internal console. You can have both. If you don't want it, mark >v0-v7 'off' in /etc/ttys. > >Once you're done with your modifications to /etc/ttys, either reboot >or send sighup to init (`kill -1 1`). > >Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.. Not at all, but I seem to have hosed my boot loader completely. =) I'll get back to you. Thanks for the help --d To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message