From: Fred Crowson (fred.crowsongooglemail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2009 - 14:28:01 CST

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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Tom <tdmurphy4gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a strange problem. I wanted to get a serial console working,
> but not necessarily divert the console to the
> serial port at boot time, so what I did was just edit /etc/ttys as specified
> in FAQ part 7.7 and rehupped getty. I couldn't
> get a peep out of /dev/tty00 (despite ps showing getty was running on
> /dev/tty00), so I ran fstat /dev/tty00 and
> nothing showed up. Then I rebooted and checked again. Still nothing in
> fstat, nothing on the serial port, and getty
> was still running on /dev/tty00.
>

Hi Tom,

The /etc/boot.conf deals with loading the kernel - adding "set tty
com0" tells the kernel to use com0 as the default console.
Using boot.conf won't solve your serial console issue man 4 cua might help...
Fred

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