Hello,
I'm running in troubles with interaction between serial console support in
2.2 kernels and boot floppies.
The problem is that /dev/tty is not initialized anymore when booting from
serial console. Therefore:
1. modconf fails to run because it redirects its i/o to/from /dev/tty
2. and modprobe is flooding the screen with the following message every time
after the drivers are configured:
modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4
modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4
...
I fixed the latter problem by disabling connections to other than the first
terminal in init when booting on serial console. In fact, I found that
these messages were indirectly sent by init because it tries to log to
/dev/tty3 & run a shell in /dev/tty2.
As a workaround for modconf, I've added a --tty option. It defaults to
/dev/tty but dbootstrap is passing "--tty /dev/console" if installing from 2.2
kernel.
BTW, I'm wondering why modconf is redirecting its i/o to /dev/tty ?
Below is the patch against modconf.
Enrique, could it be applied to the modconf package ASAP ?
Thanks in advance.
--- modconf.orig Mon Jan 18 21:37:59 1999
+++ modconf Sun Feb 14 16:51:25 1999
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
umask 022
readonly rm=rm
+ttydev=/dev/tty
+
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ]; then
readonly bold=`tput bold`
readonly clear=`tput clear`
@@ -123,7 +125,7 @@
fi
$DIALOG_TEST whiptail $DIALOG_OPTIONS --title "$title" \
- --backtitle "$backtitle" "$type" "$text " 0 0 "$@" 2>&1 1>/dev/tty
+ --backtitle "$backtitle" "$type" "$text " 0 0 "$@" 2>&1 1>$ttydev
return $?
}
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@
fi
# Note that dialog needs stdin to be the terminal, so I redirect here.
- < /dev/tty dialogBox --textbox $TempFile "$1"
+ < $ttydev dialogBox --textbox $TempFile "$1"
local result=$?
${rm} -f $TempFile
return $result
@@ -707,6 +709,10 @@
;;
--run-shell)
Run_Shell="$Run_Shell $2"
+ shift
+ ;;
+ --tty)
+ ttydev=$2
shift
;;
*)
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