Thanks for all that:)

yeah i got it going eventually.


But yes i agree a FAQ would be a good idea.
Serial consoles are often needed but little doco exists
in NetBSD.

Once you know it's fine. But without the magic words
you're up the creek.

chs,
Paul.









Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Herb Peyerl wrote:
> > So much disinformation, so little time.
>
> I think the correct term would be "irrelevant information", not
> "disinformation". ;-)
>
>         Johnny
> >
> >
> > On 18-Jul-06, at 3:33 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >>> I don't know how to activat changes without reboot, but after a
> >>> reboot you'll
> >>> have serial console.
> >>
> >> As Jukka Salmi pointed out. This is not a console line, but simply a
> >> normal serial login terminal line. And a SIGHUP to the init process
> >> will force it to re-read the ttys file.
> >
> > except for the last attribute (local, crtsdts, mdmbuf) which requires
> > ttyflags to be run.
> >
> >>> For a Kernel that outputs to serial console, you'll need
> >>> to recompile the kernel an set following params:
> >>
> >> That is what a serial console is. The console is where the system
> >> outputs system information. Serial or otherwise.
> >> A login process is totally unrelated to the console.
> >
> > You don't need to recompile the kernel.  That is one (sub-optimal) way
> > to do it.  The kernel gets its notion of console from the bootblocks.
> > So you should run installboot and point it at the serial port of your
> > dreams.  The kernel will follow.
> >
> > Sounds like we need a FAQ for this.  Maybe I should do one.
> >

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