Re: serial & console access

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2016-04-27, jungle Boogie  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to connect to a laptop via serial so I set this in 
> /etc/boot.conf:
> set tty com0
>
> Unexpectedly to me, I could not see the machine actually boot up until
> it went to the login prompt.
>
> Is there an /etc/boot.conf option I can set to support both console
> and serial access?

No, OpenBSD doesn't currently support this.

Since people sonetimes ask for ideas of things they could hack on,
this is something that would be quite useful..

Re: serial & console access

[David Dahlberg]

Am Dienstag, den 26.04.2016, 23:42 -0700 schrieb jungle Boogie:

> I would like to connect to a laptop via serial [..]
> Unexpectedly to me, I could not see the machine actually boot up until
> it went to the login prompt.
> Is there an /etc/boot.conf option I can set to support both console
> and serial access?

There is exactly one boot console, but you may have multiple ttys. At
the moment, you boot on the serial console, but you have additional "pc"
ttys ("/dev/ttyC?").

Of course you can also do the reverse: Boot on the pc console and
configure additional serial ttys (see ttys(5), FAQ 7). 

Cheers,
David

serial & console access

[jungle Boogie]

Hi All,

I would like to connect to a laptop via serial so I set this in /etc/boot.conf:
set tty com0

Unexpectedly to me, I could not see the machine actually boot up until
it went to the login prompt.

Is there an /etc/boot.conf option I can set to support both console
and serial access?

Thanks!



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