Yes, machines boot fine with no one connected to the telnet side of
the serial ports.  	If it helps, I have seen the behavior you describe.
I've seen it when cd and dtr are not asserted.  Make sure you have modem
session control turned off.
-Brian
On Mar 22,  3:44pm, Chris Ross wrote:
} Subject: Re: Boot without an active serial console?
} 
} On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Brian Buhrow wrote:
} > 	We have a number of NetBSD machines plugged into a Cisco terminal
} > server and they boot fine with unattended consoles.
} >
} > The config for those lines looks like:
} 
}    Hmm, and the machines boot up while connected to the ports on the  
} Cisco, and with no connection established to those ports on the  
} cisco?  ie, no telnet or what-have-you connection to those ports on  
} the cisco?
} 
}    I'll check your config against mine, and see if I can see where  
} there's a difference.  Certainly sounds like I should be able to work  
} around this problem, then...
} 
}    Thanks!
} 
}                              - Chris
} 
>-- End of excerpt from Chris Ross