Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>
>>  >>boot go on... But end in saying that he can't find any ttyE0...
>
>>  ah, (ahem) maybe I am not SUPPOSED to be using ttyE0????
>>  I am controlling NetBSD entirely from my Mac IIx using ZTerm and a 
>>serial line.
>>  I don't know what "wscons" is (are?). Is it the right stuff to use 
>>in my case?
>
>In that case, you should edit /etc/ttys (from single user, after "fsck
>-p; mount -u /") so that the getty on the appropriate serial device
>(tty00 or tty01) is turned "on", and all the others are turned "off".
>
>--
>
>
>Frederick

Ok, I turned "console" and "tty00" in /etc/ttys "on", and "ttyE0" off.
Then I booted (NON-single user) and it got past the "getty[174]: 
/dev/ttyE0: Device not configured" problem, and it typed (on the 
serial console):

Wed Jan  3 09:23:11 PST 2001

login:


I thought I was home free, but I typed "root" and a CR - it didn't 
echo, but appended to the line with:

login: Jan  3 09:24:37  login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON tty00
Jan  3 09:24:37  login:  ROOT LOGIN (root) ON tty0
Jan  3 09:24:37  NetBSD  1.5 (GENERICSBD) #0: Sun Nov 19 14:25:41 PST 
2000 Welcome to NetBSD!



NetBSD/mac68k (Amnesiac) (console)

login:


...and then hung! (At least it was no longer responsive to the keyboard)
The console on the machine remained blank, and the main machine was 
also nonresponsive to the keyboard.


Dan Killoran