On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:55 -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > 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...
<rhetorical> Why don't people trust that the guy who writes all this crap knows what he's talking about? </rhetorical> :P Normally, yes, it would only be good for kernel output, but as someone else mentioned, you have livecd-functions.sh that re-writes the inittab. Well, guess what triggers it? That's right, a "console=" option on the command line. If you type (or via catalyst, add) console=something, livecd-functions.sh (via functions.sh in baselayout) will interpret it and modify inittab accordingly before we ever even hit runlevel 3, so it starts a console on that serial line for login. Try it. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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