On Thu, 27 May 1999, Sean Han wrote:

> Yes, I think so. Here is the ttys setting of /dev/ttyE0:
> 
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3     off secure
> ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure
> ttyE1   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure
> ttyE2   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure
> ttyE3   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure

To login on com1, you need to have tty00 on. The ttyE* are for wscons.
Those are the different screens you get with CTRL-ALT-F1,F2, etc. When
you were booting on the console, one screen was configured by default,
but with your serial console kernel that doesn't happen unless you run
wsconscfg or change wscons=NO to wscons=YES in /etc/rc.conf.

If this machine is on a network, you can login, su, change /etc/ttys,
run wsconscfg, and "kill -HUP 1" to start the new gettys. Otherwise,
you're never going to see a shell unless you boot from your old kernel.