Re: serial console unplugged, boot hangs, help !

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.remote.dti.net>]

re
yes, it will not boot if you have nothing on the other end of serial
serial cable.
either fake the hardware flow control, or keep it plugged
in all the time.
cu

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Richard Bignell:
> I'm building a box for co-location at an ISP, I want to set it up 
> with a serial console so there is no need to stuff a keyboard in the 
> rack and no reboot required to recognise a just-connected keyboard.
> 
> I've trawled through the misc archive and done the stuff with option 
> COMCONSOLE, /etc/boot.conf, and /etc/ttys. The machine boots OK and 
> apart from a few lines:
> 
> Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3
> reading boot...
> probing: pc0 com0 apm mem[636K 61M a20=on]
> disk: fd0 hd0
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 1.23
> switching console to com0
> 
> nothing else happens on the VGA screen. Great, ...but... I checked 
> what happens if the terminal (minicom on Linux in my case) is 
> unplugged at boot time, and the boot process *hangs* !! When I plug 
> in the console, it all starts happenning immediately - as if the boot 
> program is waiting on some characters or response back from the 
> terminal.
> 
> Any ideas ? Any solutions ? Else I'll have to go back to keyboard + 
> mouse + VGA and I'd rather not...
> 
> P.S. this is 2.6, patches 001 - 020 applied.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> --
> Richard Bignell
> rjb@pierconsulting.com
> 
> 


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