Re: Serial console needed

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd@bsws.de>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:19:59AM +0400, Dima Veselov wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> How I can use serial console only on my OpenBSD-2.9 i386 machine?

echo "set tty com0" > /etc/boot.conf

> The problem is: if computer wouldn't have any video device needed for a
> console it hangs during startup. I have no free expansion slots there. All
> slots are busy with NICs :-)

it works without a vga card if using the above.

> Is serial console not a dream?

absolutely ;-))
Don'y forget to enable the getty on tty00 in /etc/ttys ! Otherwise you'll
see the boot messages on the console, but no login prompt.

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