On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, nicodache wrote:
> Hello, it's me again, for an end.
>
> IT WAS THE CABLE /o\
>
> I bought a cable in a shop, specially asking the guy there if it would
> fit to connect 2 pc to acces them using console control software, and
> he told me he used that same cable for his own lab test.
> And it appears the cable I made myself last month, and I didn't trust
> at all, is working using default params (and vt100 as HyperTerm does
> not seem to support vt220), while the one I paid 2.5 is not... (I
> said my cicso was fine with the serial port, but I could not use his
> cable, as one end is a rj45 connector...)
>
> Thanks anyway to you guys, and off to another problem ; /etc/boot.conf
> not used \x/
You said you wre using RAIDframe. The /etc/boot.conf needs to be on
the same filesystem you are loading the kernel from. If root is on a
RAIDframe partition, that is not the right one.
-Otto
> We'll see that tomorrow, gonna sleep now, 34 after midnight here.
>
> nicodache
>
> On 8/21/07, nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Me again,
> >
> > Trying to play with the serial port to see if I can get it to work, I
> > just saw my box does not seem to care of /etc/boot.conf : when I "set
> > timeout 20" (plus stty com0 9600 & set tty com0), my machine still
> > decides to boot after 5 seconds.
> >
> > So, my computer really does sorcerer-ish things...
> >
> > any clues on why I got no luck ?
> >
> > Could that be due to RAIDframe ?
> > Or am I just some kind of idiot ?
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > On 8/21/07, nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Here is the content of /etc/ttys file. do you see any mistake ?
> > >
> > > -bash-3.2$ grep -v none /etc/ttys
> > > #
> > > # $OpenBSD: ttys,v 1.17 2002/06/09 06:15:14 todd Exp $
> > > #
> > > # name getty type status comments
> > > #
> > > console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 on secure
> > > ttyC1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC8 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyC9 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyCa "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > ttyCb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" vt220 off secure
> > > tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure
> > > tty01 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty02 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty03 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty04 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty05 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty06 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > > tty07 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off
> > >
> > >
> > > when getting the stage 2 boot loading prompt, I also get the following
> message :
> > > probing: pc0 com0 mem[639K 1023M a20=on]
> > > disk: fd0 fd1 hd0+ hd1+
> > > >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.13
> > > boot >
> > >
> > > So, my installation sees an com port. is that because it is physically
> > > detected ? or because it is configured in the /etc/ttys file ?
> > >
> > > Thanks again
