My problem was indeed a missing /etc/boot.conf. Creating that with
contents
stty com0 115200
set tty com0
solved my immediate problem, and editing /etc/ttys to have a getty
running on the serial port (at the right baud rate) got me a fully
working system.
Thanks to everyone who responded (both here & by private email)
for reminding me about boot.conf -- I knew about that but had
brain-parity-error overlooked it.
ciao,
--
-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" <dr.j.thornb...@gmail-pink.com>
on the west coast of Canada
"Now back when I worked in banking, if someone went to Barclays,
pretended to be me, borrowed UKP10,000 and legged it, that was
`impersonation', and it was the bank's money that had been stolen,
not my identity. How did things change?" -- Ross Anderson
