On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, nicodache wrote: > 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 ?
/etc/ttys isn't mounted yet. At this point you can have anything in /etc/ttys ... /etc/ttys is for getty, later, after the system is booted. At this point, "boot>", you're looking at a hardware probe. Dave
