On 11/1/14, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de> wrote: > On 2014-11-01, patrick keshishian <pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> * Has anyone here used a USB-only laptop with a USB-to-serial adapter >>> as a serial console? (You know, instead of hardware that has a native >>> RS-232 port? >> >> Yes. I use such a setup on one "server". You need to add the >> appropriate /dev/ttyUx in your /etc/ttys and ensure ttyflags(8) >> runs after the device attaches. > > Running a getty(8) on a serial port is not a console. You have no > access to boot(8), boot_config(8), the bootup kernel messages, or > single-user mode.
of course it isn't. I took some liberty in interpreting what functionally the OP was after. --patrick
