Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:02:07 -0600 (CST) From: David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serial console Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012050001230.2611-100000@sherman.spotnet.org> In-Reply-To: <20001205044353.4A31E3E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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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
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