Good guess, I shouldn't wonder, but:
quarm.feral.com > diff /etc/rc.serial /usr/src/etc/
quarm.feral.com >
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>
> > Something wierd has been happening lately- the serial console on my i386
> > machine works fine up until init is forked.. THen the output is mangled, and
> > one gets replicated and/or mangled stuff. On a reboot I'm getthing things
> > like:
> >
> > WWWWWaaaaaiiiiitttttiiiiinnnnnggggg (((((mmmmmaaaaaxxxxx 6666600000
> > ssssseeeeecccccooooonnnnndddddsssss))))) fffffooooorrrrr
> > sssssyyyyysssssttttteeeeemmmmm ppppprrrrroooooccccceeeeessssssssss
> > `````bbbbbuuuuufffffdddddaaaaaeeeeemmmmmooooonnnnn''''' tttttooooo
> > ssssstttttoooooppppp...............ssssstttttoooooppppppppppeeeeeddddd
>
> This may be caused by inconsistent settings in /etc/rc.serial.
> /etc/rc.serial should rarely be changed from its default of doing nothing.
>
> Bruce
>
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