You want to look in /sys/sys/ttydefaults.h and change the 
	TTYDEF_CFLAG line to something like

#define TTYDEF_CFLAG    (CREAD | CS8 | HUPCL)

	otherwise the kernel switched into 7E1 when it initialises the
	serial ports (up till thn its been using the prom to output the
	messages).

	(About the only local patch I _absolutely_ needed when running
	NetBSD.
	If you boot single user you can mount /usr & run reset to get
	the tty sane again, but you cant see to run fsck first,	so its
	not a happy thing to do. Its no doubt in a PR somewhere, but
	not having to keep it locally was a pleasant bonus from my move
	to openbsd :)

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On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Mike Frisch wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, behind brown eyes wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to use a vt320 as the console on my NetBSD/sparc Sun 4/330. The
> > terminal works fine until init kicks in (that is, until just after "root on 
> > sd0a" is printed), and then spits out garbage. Looking in /var/log/messages,
> 
> 	I had the same problem when I used my PC as a console for my 
> 4/110.  It appears that after this point in the init, the character 
> stream switches from 8N1 to 7E1 (change to 7E1 after the garbage appears 
> and you'll be able to read it) and then back to 8N1.  I have no idea 
> what's causing this, but it seems to work fine on my system once it gets 
> past this point.
> 
> Mike.
> 
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