serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart)

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:39:29PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar 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).

If I got him right then he has not /dev/ttyu* at all.
Sounds more like he is missing something in his kernel config.

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