Gone serial console on rpi3

[bob prohaska]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +0000, Bob Bishop wrote:
> 
> > On 20 Feb 2020, at 01:51, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Lately it seems the serial console on my Pi3 has gone
> > missing. 

> 
> Well you do need to have the port turned on in /etc/ttys otherwise you won???t get a getty on it.
> 
> 
/etc/ttys hasn't been touched and looks normal. The serial console goes
silent immediately after the kernel puts up the video display probe
indicating the screen size, long before /etc/ttys is consulted.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska