On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:01:23PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:01 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > >> 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. > > > > > > So I tried setting 'livecd/bootargs: console=ttyS0,115200' in > > > installcd-stage2-minimal.spec and indeed it does setup a tty on the > > > serial line. However, it doesn't actually seem to pass "bootargs" to > > > the kernel or there is some other wierdness going on as the dmesg > > > information AND all of the sysvinit output remains only on the vga > > > console. The last output on the fbconsole is some wierd error message > > > about bootsplash right before attaching a tty to the serial line. This > > > is an improvement for me but I would really like to see the kernel > > > output/etc. so I can see if the boot processes has hung. > > > > You're positive that it's not being passed to the kernel? I'm pretty sure > > that > > livecd-tools would read it from /proc/cmdline, which is the arguments > > passed to > > the kernel. If it shows up in /proc/cmdline, then it's the kernel that > > isn't > > honoring it, not catalyst/genkernel/isolinux that is doing something wrong. > > I think it is an ordering issue, rather than it not being passed. I > just checked the code and the splash code appends to the very end of the > kernel command line, meaning it takes precedence.
I won't be able to test anything until Monday. Would an option to completely disable the splash be reasonable? -J --
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