Re: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

[Arshavir Grigorian]

Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
 

Hi,
While booting, I get the following error/warning message which keeps 
repeating until I press CTRL-C after which the boot process continues 
normally and everything is fine.

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
This is a e450 box and I am accessing it through the serial console 
/dev/ttyS0.
In /etc/inittab, I commented out the tty entries

#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
tty1                                         
#2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
tty2                                           
#3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
tty3                                           
#4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
tty4                                           
#5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
tty5                                           
#6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 
   

i leave all those lines uncommented in my setup. (it doesnt hurt)
 

and uncommented
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
   

good.
also i add a kernel boot parameter in my menu.lst file.
# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600
-matt zagrabelny
Thanks. That didn't seem to help. Adding the console option as follows 
resulted in a bunch of empty screens after which everything worked fine. 
After the second reboot, the machine never came up and only got back 
after a hard reboot.

silo.conf
------------
append="md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 console=ttyS0,9600"
On a different note, when I have the tty lines uncommented, the system 
starts dumping garbage on the serial console and saying that getty is 
respawning too quickly and needs to sleep for 5 minutes.

Arshavir




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