On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:32:33PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 17:15, Martin Hedenfalk wrote:
> > Is there a nullconsole in OpenBSD, similar to the nullconsole in FreeBSD?
>
> Not that I know but you could always set it to a non-existant tty
> (com1?), I guess. But that's not the problem here though...
>
> > On the WRAP, "set tty pc0" in /etc/boot.conf still uses the serial
> > port. This might be due to some BIOS setting, but I'd rather not
> > change that as re-setting the BIOS seems to be non-trivial.
>
> This sounds like the BIOS is redirecting vga to the serial port and if
> that is the case the only way to use the serial port is to disable the
> console redirection in BIOS.
>
> >
> > What I'm looking for is a "set tty none" or similar in /etc/boot.conf.
> If the WRAP is using console redirection this wont help.
Why not? If you set the system console device to some non-existent com1,
as you state above, and disable most everything in /etc/ttys, wouldn't
you be able to make sure the system doesn't use the vga port?
Joachim
