[Soekris] com0 OpenBSD not working initally on boot

[Jeff Quast]

> On 9/25/06, William Graeber <william.graeber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have just installed OpenBSD 3.9 on a net4511. My root partition is
> read-only, and I have a tarball unzipped into an mfs partition for /var upon
> boot. /dev/ttyp00-01 and /dev/ptyp00-01 are symlinked to /var/dev so that
> they are writable. At the login prompt over the serial console I am able to
> log in and access the system, however I am not able to input anything before
> then. Initially when "boot>" is displayed, if I try to input "boot -s" to
> enter single user mode "b" is the only character that actually gets entered.
> After that they system seems to freeze and not respond to anything else that
> I input.
> >
> > I know that this seems vague, but I don't have the system available to me
> at the moment. I will gladly provide more information if needed.
> >
> > William
> >
>

(top posting bad! reorganizing for you)

On 9/25/06, William Graeber <william.graeber at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a bit more information for everyone - "cu -l /dev/cua00 -s 9600"
> worked with no problem getting the soekris box into single user mode running
> under an OpenBSD VMWare install on my machine. However, both Hyperterminal
> and Minicom refuse to get past the "b" in "boot -s" on the same computer.
>

Turn off flow control!!!!!! this is asked and answered every week.