On 10/17/17 00:03, Justin Mayes wrote:
> Greetings all - what does one do when during the install you set the
> default console to com0 and now your serial cable is not working? I
> cannot login to set the default console back to use the keyboard and
> monitor. Instead of the boot prompt where I can normally change
> settings and/or enter single user mode I just get the message
> "switching console to com0" immediately without any delay to enter
> boot commands. Thanks for your time.
man boot has this:
boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot
cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts.
and as that's where the "set tty com0" command is, that will solve your
problem. (I can rarely remember which key it is, so I often just hold
down CTRL, ALT and SHIFT on one side of the keyboard.)
(note: I'm assuming you are talking about amd64 or i386 platforms).
Nick.
