Peter Wemm wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com> wrote: >> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0 >>> through ttyvf. I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new >>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always >>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in >>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30". >> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console: >> >> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >> uart0: [FILTER] >> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) >> >> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above? >> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial >> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or >> boot with -h). > > He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file. > (change sio to uart) I think uart should read 'sio' entries if there is no sio in the kernel, and it hasn't found any uart entries.. >Received on Fri Sep 12 2008 - 04:13:48 UTC
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