> I've tried to use the serial console stuff on my IIsi (17 MB, no FPU) the
> other day. Everything seemed to work okay, until the point where the kernel
> changes it's security level. At that point the machine drops into the
> kernel debugger (jump to address 0, or something like that).
> Now this might be a pilot error, because I had enabled a getty on that line
> before and simply disabled it by commenting the tty0 line out.
> 
> Do I need a /etc/ttys entry for using the serial console ? I want to use
> the machine head- and handless.

I'm not sure if it's really getty running on the same port (since I
never tried serial console), but you can just boot into single-user
mode, do "mount -u /", and edit /etc/ttys.

ken