Bug 13051

Summary: after installation on system using COM1, kernel won't allow login
Product: Base System Reporter: jzwiebel <jzwiebel>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jzwiebel 1999-08-10 02:10:00 UTC 
On a PC with no keyboard or mouse or video,
After installing a kernel from ftp.freebsd.org using boot floppies, 
when the system reboots, it will not allow login on the COM1 port.
I was able to use a Cntl-C during the boot process to come up 
single user and modify the /etc/ttys file.

How-To-Repeat: Need a PC with no keyboard or video or mouse, only a com1 port.
Then install FreeBSD.  There wasn't anything obvious that I could
configure in /stand/sysinstall to get around this.
Comment 1 jedgar 1999-08-10 03:01:02 UTC 
1) If the machine has network access, use the configure portion of the
install to add a user in the wheel group, telnet in after the install, su,
and edit /etc/ttys.
2) Edit /etc/ttys during the install on the holographic shell (ttyv3).
Comment 2 jzwiebel 1999-08-10 03:05:20 UTC 
My attempts at doing this kept failing to configure the network correctly 
on reboot.  This could have bee me being fat-fingered somehgow
 ^ 1) If the machine has network access, use the configure portion of the
 ^ install to add a user in the wheel group, telnet in after the install, su,
 ^ and edit /etc/ttys.


The following is not an option because the holographic shell doesn't work
over my commserver connection to COM1.
 ^ 2) Edit /etc/ttys during the install on the holographic shell (ttyv3).
 ^ 
 ^ 
Thanks

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	John Zwiebel                       Phone: 408-526-5303
	Cisco Systems Inc.                 
	IP Multicast Group
Comment 3 Chris D.Faulhaber freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-16 23:01:01 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

sysinstall in recent 4.x releases contains support for modifying 
/etc/ttys during an install.