Re: Serial console needed

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

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:35:15PM +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I am also doing this - works fine without wscons et al. in the kernel. Only
> problem I have hit is the speed can only be set up to 19200, as this is the
> INT14 limit I think ? Setting 'stty com0 115200' does nothing useful :(
> 
> Also, I couldn't type anything after a couple of spaces at the boot prompt.
> Anyone seen this ? Letting the thing boot, and the login: was fine.

Yes, same here. Actually, you can type things in, they just get not
displayed. The machine doesn't start booting after typing s/t like "boot
hd0a:/bsd.old", but dicsonnecting and reconnecting the serial console (to be
pedantic: shutting down and restart minicom) did the trick. No idea why.

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