From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 13: 3:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A9E114CBF for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20601; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:03:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Michael Jaskowiak Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't get a getty In-Reply-To: <3778F6B2.3D14@interpath.com> 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 On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Michael Jaskowiak wrote: > Hello All, > > Here's the deal. I have a system that resides on a flash drive (350 > megs). The thing is that this system won't have a video card installed > in it. The system works with the exception of not being able to have > any getty processes running. If I have a video card in it, I can have > as many getty's as I want. However, if I don't have a video card in it, > I can't get any. This is noted in the handbook as a known limitation with some PC hardware. Have you checked your bios for possible weirdness? Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message