On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> > I'm using a serial console with my mac. when I launch netbsd in single user
> > mode everything works fine. But when I launch multiuser, the next message is
> > displayed:
> > 
> > DATE: INIT: Kernel security level changed from 0 to 1.
> > DATE: getty(185): /dev/ttye0: device not configured
> > 
> > and then everything dies. What can I do?
> 
> You need to edit /etc/ttys and change the line describing /dev/ttye0 to
> "off" and turn the line which you're running serial console on (tty00 for
> the modem and tty01 for the printer port) "on".

Of the two things, the turning "on" tty00 or tty01 is the more important,
That's why things seem to die. The machine is functioning quite well, it's
just you have no way of getting into it. If you had a network interface
too (Ethernet), you would be able to log in at this point.

It used to be you HAD to turn off ttye0, or else things'd crash. Allen or
Scott fixed that a while ago. :-)

Take care,

Bill