On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ed Lauman wrote:

> at the same time a s it scrolls down the Mac's screen. As soon as I try the
> serial console (on either port), the boot process stops at this line:
> [current date here] macbsd getty[156]: /dev/ttye0: device not configured

Actually it probably didn't stop. You just don't have anything (no getty)
running on that port. :-)

Either boot with serial console off, or boot single-user with serial
console (and then mount -u /; mount /usr if /usr is a seperate partition).
Then edit /etc/ttys. You'll find a line which starts with tty00. There
will be an "off" a few columns over. Change it to "on". Now you'll get a
serial console.

Note that the modem is tty00 and the printer is tty01.

> does anyone know how to fix this? (I'm using Eric Winkler's firewall archive
> if that helps.) I need to return the monitor and keyboard soon, so I'd like
> to get this resolved as soon as possible.
> Ed
> 
> (on a related note when I type shutdown -h now, is it safe to switch the
> machine off when says to hit any key to reboot?)

Yep. I think actually that shutdown -p is supposed to power it off. :-)