On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> I run my firewall on a SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F. On this hardware, I've
> noticed that I seem to have the choice of either a PC console or a
> serial console. If I ask for a serial console *on this hardware* I get
> a console on uart:com0 and it works great but I don't have any PC/VGA
> consoles. On the other hand, if I configure for a PC console, hoping
> to just enable the serial port in /etc/ttys, I have a getty running
> against the UART hardware but it can't use it as a console. Hitting
> return in a cu window from my oob server doesn't get any output.
>
> I can solve my problems in one of two ways. If I can boot with serial
> consoles by setting them up in /etc/boot.conf and also have terminals
> on the pc consoles, I'd be happy. I'd also be happy if I could figure
> out how to configure the BIOS to make enable the serial port as just
> a plain serial port. Super Micro seems to have other ideas and I
> understand that this is *my* problem.
>
> I'll tak any suggestions here.
What did you put into /etc/ttys when using a VGA console?
-Otto
