On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 18:49:00 +0100 (CET), Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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. Eric, could you NMU it? Enrique is out until Thursday and said NMUs while he was gone were ok. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
