Nick Holland wrote: > Don Jackson wrote: >> I use serial consoles on all my OpenBSD servers for remote serial >> access to the machines, both during initial install via pxeboot, and >> later on in regular use after the install. >> I'm currently running either 4.2 or 4.1 on all my machines. >> >> The FAQ states: >> >> Only the first serial port (com0) is supported for console on >> amd64 and i386 >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon >> >> Why is this the case? > > because that's the way the code was written... > >> Why does OpenBSD care which serial port I use? > > because that's the way the code was written... > >> Will it simply not work if I specify "set tty com1" in /etc/boot.conf ? > > I certainly wouldn't plan on it working. Feel free to try. Don't > whine if things work as advertised.
Well, I've been informed that at least for -current (and I'm pretty sure that means for -recent :) it DOES (at least sometimes) work. I just tried it on one of my machines with -current, it Just Worked. (and on -current, it works Just Cool. Set it up with com1, not only does it install on com1, it sets the config files up for com1) So, I'm happy to report that I and the FAQ are at least partly, and very possibly completely wrong on this. I'm pretty sure this was true at one point, obviously that limitation was removed, and tom@ is probably going to pull up a list of 20 test cases I ran for him, but I don't remember that. FAQ will be fixed once I make sure deleting the warning is 100% appropriate. Nick.
