On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:58:36AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:00 -0400, Scott Biddlestone wrote: > > If you installed livecd-tools, the inittab is overwritten by > > /sbin/livecd-functions.sh when the cd boots ( it is backed up to > > inittab.old ). One way to fix it is to modify the script by creating > > a new livecd-tools ebuild in your portage overlay - copy the current > > ebuild and just add the patch to it. > > Please don't touch livecd-tools. Don't touch sysvinit. Instead, do > the following in your livecd-stage2.spec file... > > livecd/bootargs: console=ttyS0,115200 > > That's it. When the CD is built, it'll have the console appended to > both the "normal" and "nofb" kernels. Either kernel will work perfectly > fine for serial console, so you're done.
Eh, isn't that only good for kernel output? I'd like to actually be able to get a shell on the serial line... -J --
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