On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:33:57 -0800, you wrote:
>I've got serial consoles on several i386 machines running 1.3.2,
>and after a certain amount of time, the machines begin behaving
>strangely... any process which wants to write to the console (via =
syslog,
>for example) hangs, because there's nothing plugged into that serial =
port.
...
>options         "CONSDEVNAME=3D\"com\"",CONADDR=3D0x3f8,CONSPEED=3D9600
>options         CONMODE=3D0x0000cb00

I have:

options         "CONSDEVNAME=3D\"com\"",CONADDR=3D0x3f8,CONS_OVERRIDE

and it works fine (I have nothing plugged into the connector either)!