From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 11:31:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA24346 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:31:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from filoli.filoli.com ([204.162.0.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24339 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:31:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sunspot.filoli.com (root@sunspot.filoli.com [204.162.1.17]) by filoli.filoli.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA01650 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:31:13 -0800 Received: from sundial.filoli.com (brian@sundial.filoli.com [204.162.1.18]) by sunspot.filoli.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA04884 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:31:12 -0800 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:31:11 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Queen To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: basic questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What is the link - or where is it specified - between the devices probed at boot, and the devices in /dev? In particular simple examples like sio0 to cuaa0 ... I added xdm to an "off" tty in ttys. Now when I boot X comes up. It is cool, but why does boot use THAT tty instead of the others? There are 3 others with gettys on them instead of xdm. Brian