Hi Brian, Hmmm, I would have suggested ttyS0 but I'm not sure where the proper location for VGA is.... Some internal documentation at HP indicates tty1 may also work--it suggests tty1 but says tty0 should also work.
I don't have a system like this to test on. -dave On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:54 -0400, Brian Szymanski wrote: > > I used to have a very similar problem on my Compaq DL590/64. I > > fixed it > > by adding "console=tty0" to the ELILO kernel argument list. It was > > doing just what David said, semi-randomly choosing between VGA and > > serial console. I have no idea why. > > > Unfortunately, I added this to elilo.conf (see attach), ran elilo, and > rebooted... And the behavior is the same. If I had thought about it I > wouldn't have expected it to work anyway, since when the system is > unpingable as well when it stops outputting text, even after a few > minutes (I guess it's possible the kernel blocks waiting for the > serial console, but that seems unlikely) ... Maybe it's time to start > poking in the BIOS... > > Thanks again for the ideas so far... Any others? > > Thanks, > Brian > > -- > Brian Szymanski > > plain text document attachment (elilo.conf) > ## elilo configuration file generated by elilo 3.6-3.1 > > install=/usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi > boot=/dev/sda1 > delay=20 > default=Linux > append="console=tty0" > > relocatable > > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > root=/dev/sda3 > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img > append="console=tty0" > > image=/vmlinuz.old > label=LinuxOLD > root=/dev/sda3 > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img.old > append="console=tty0" > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
