23.03.2026 12:47, Jan Stary пишет:
On Mar 23 10:24:47, [email protected] wrote:
You can spawn a login prompt on com0 through /etc/ttys and avoid changing
boot.conf. Enable tty00 in /etc/ttys.
That’s the best dual support you’ll get.
i'm afraid, this will not help me to fix filesystem errors, which i get time
to time because of power outage.
How would two consoles help you fix FS errors after a reboot
(as opposed to having one console after a reboot)?
very easy :) i won't have to go to work on the weekend, because i have
another machine near, which i've could use to connect to console.
Unfortunately, i do not have any kvm or ipmi on my OpenBSD machine, and
cannot afford it.
it's the main reason i wanted second console.
It is way easier to help
if you make you main reason clear
at the very start of your post.
I already seen those posts about patching rc to make fsck be more
automatically, i think this is terrible solution.
So, i thought, maybe there is another way.
Jan
On Mar 22, 2026, at 3:48 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2026-03-22, Andrew Daugherity <[email protected]> wrote:
I use
~ $ cat /etc/boot.conf
stty com0 115200
set tty com0
~ $
You can configure a serial console in boot.conf, and switch back to
the default local console by holding the Ctrl during bootup to skip
loading the conf file (on i386 & amd64 at least, not sure about other
arches). From boot(8):
boot.conf processing can be skipped, and the automatic boot
cancelled, by holding down either Control key as boot starts.
You've got to be very lucky with timing on some machines.
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