On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 04:44:45PM +0200, What you get is Not what you see
wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM, What you get is Not what you see <
> wygin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > OK
> > I tried and got an old com port from an old computer and connected it to
> > the machine which doesnt boot.
> > I have another openbsd box which has a serial com port on it. I try to
> > make it a serial console client.
> > I have connected the machines with a com cable. I edited the /etc/ttys
> > file in the serial console client
> > machine as
> >
> > tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure
> >
> > and rebooted the client machine.
> > When I boot the serial console server machine, I wrote "set tty com0" and
> > it said
> > "switching console to com0".
> >
> > In the client I wrote "tip tty00" and it said connected. And thats all.
> > But nothing happens. No boot messages in the client machine. Nothing.
> >
> > What shall I do now?
> >
> >
> >
> Shall I buy a pci com port and retry with it? I have read on some sources
> that i386 platform doesnt support
> serial console. Please help me.
i386 does support serial console. I don;t now how you got the
instructions, the /etcttys line is not needed
man boot.conf will tell you more.
-Otto
