From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 9 20: 3:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFE61532E for ; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 20:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28437; Mon, 9 Aug 1999 23:02:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908100302.XAA28437@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: unconfigured ttyv0, no video card. In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990809194404.00be8e50@server7.singular.com> from "jbarbee@singular.com" at "Aug 9, 99 07:44:33 pm" To: jbarbee@singular.com Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 23:02:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jbarbee@singular.com wrote, > Hi, > > Using FreeBSD 3.2. When the machine starts up it gives this error during > rc.i386 > > rc.i386 configuring syscons: blank_time/etc/rc.i386: cannot open > /dev/ttyv0: no such device or address [snip] > I'm using a serial console and pulled the video card. Does the ttyv0 > device depend on the existence of a video card? Yes. See man syscons(4). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message