On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Tom <tdmurp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a strange problem. I wanted to get a serial console working, > but not necessarily divert the console to the > serial port at boot time, so what I did was just edit /etc/ttys as specified > in FAQ part 7.7 and rehupped getty. I couldn't > get a peep out of /dev/tty00 (despite ps showing getty was running on > /dev/tty00), so I ran fstat /dev/tty00 and > nothing showed up. Then I rebooted and checked again. Still nothing in > fstat, nothing on the serial port, and getty > was still running on /dev/tty00. >
Hi Tom, The /etc/boot.conf deals with loading the kernel - adding "set tty com0" tells the kernel to use com0 as the default console. Using boot.conf won't solve your serial console issue man 4 cua might help... Fred
