Like I said, I'm willing to believe that GENERIC works. But your "1) Install OpenBSD" suggestion is unrealistic. I'm installed OpenBSD hundreds of times, and am reasonably good at it. This is, however, the first time I've done an install on a serial only system, and my post was not a complaint about the install process or an expectation that the developers anticipate my needs or shortcomings, but simply a response to Nick's invitation for DMESGs and "too much info".
On 7/28/05, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:20:30 -0700 Marti Martinez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The most obvious problem I had was that /dev/com0 either didn't exist > > or didn't work properly, so I'd lose serial access once the kernel > > booted. with the new config, /dev/com0 worked, so it was trivial to > > get the serial access working throughout the entire boot to login > > process. I had other problems, evidenced by the fact that the network > > was not getting started, which I couldn't really troubleshoot without > > knowing what/where the problem occurred. > > I'm not saying you didn't have problems, I am saying they had nothing > to do with running GENERIC and were likely PEBKAC. It sounds like you > didn't bother to enable tty00 in /etc/ttys and then decided to blame > that on your kernel for some reason. > > Soekris machines work fine, and a default openbsd installation works > fine on them. If you have a problem, ask what you are doing wrong, > don't mess up a perfectly good OS installation. > > Clearly if you are having problems, you are not in a position where you > should be running a bastardized and unsupported installation. And you > certainly shouldn't be complaining about people not telling you how to > run a default install, its very well documented. > > Adam > -- Systems Programmer, Senior Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Arizona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
