On 8 May 1996 18:36:47 GMT 
 dillo@giga.or.at (Dieter Baron) wrote:

 > when i use a terminal (ttya) as console, it hangs when /etc/rc starts
 > writing to the console.  is there a patch/workaround for this?  has
 > this been done?

Hmm, that's odd.  I use a serial console on an SS1 all the time.  What is 
the console setting in the openprom?  You can find out with either the 
eeprom(8) program (/usr/sbin/eeprom), or with printenv in the openprom 
itself.

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