Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-18 13:59, Bob Jones wrote: Re: never reactivate the console unless you do it over ssh Aah, well therein lies the twist, SSH never comes up, so I guess you're right, its waiting for tty. How do now I tell it to not use tty0 (and will doing so prevent me from using the console port for

Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread Bob Jones
Re: never reactivate the console unless you do it over ssh Aah, well therein lies the twist, SSH never comes up, so I guess you're right, its waiting for tty. How do now I tell it to not use tty0 (and will doing so prevent me from using the console port for diagnostics at a future date ?) On 18

Re: OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread alexmcwhirter
On 2016-11-18 13:13, Bob Jones wrote: I successfully installed OpenBSD 6 on a system that only has USB console by broadly following the instructions here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292891/how-can-i-install-openbsd-using-the-serial-console-without-external-monitor-wi When the console

OpenBSD problems with headless boot

2016-11-18 Thread Bob Jones
I successfully installed OpenBSD 6 on a system that only has USB console by broadly following the instructions here http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/292891/how-can-i-install-openbsd-using-the-serial-console-without-external-monitor-wi When the console cable session is connected, the system