I did some more testing and this seems hardware related.
I installed freebsd on old HP vectra and there it works...
while on my compaq deskpro (also old) it doesn't work
On the machine the it works I have:
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A, console
While on the machine that it doesn't I have:
sio0: <Standard PC COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A, console
Same settings on both machines...
I also managed to find a work around...When the login hangs
I can press ^D (ctrl-D => eof ) twice which will respawn a new
getty and enables me to log in.
(so I'm not stuck any more
)
//Michael