On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 11:32 -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:15:17PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 16:11 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > > > I won't be able to test anything until Monday.  Would an option to
> > > > completely disable the splash be reasonable?
> > > 
> > > That's what the -nofb kernel does. However, there isn't currently an 
> > > option to 
> > > have a framebuffer without splash. I'm not sure if it would still pass 
> > > the 
> > > splash options if you don't enable splash stuff in livecd-stage2.spec, 
> > > but I bet 
> > > it would.
> > 
> > Just comment out the splash stuff in livecd-stage2's spec and you won't
> > get a splash, at all, and serial will work just fine.
> 
> I just tried booting with the gentoo-nofb option and it becomes a serial
> only system with absolutely no response on the vga/keyboard console.
> Ideally I'd like to have both function the vga & serial consoles live.
> I'll try rolling a new CD with the splash stuff disabled but I doubt the
> results will be any different.  Do you want to see /proc/cmdline?

OK.  I had assumed that you were more familiar with the init process
than you are.  Using -nofb means you get zero console= options on your
command line.  You need one for every console you're supporting and
currently are only appending one for serial.  Rebuild your CD with:

livecd/bootargs: console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200

This will tell it to show on both the local screen and the serial, with
the kernel's concept of the "console" being your serial.  Also, rebuild
without splash.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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