On Fri, March 6, 2015 04:21, JMW MVM wrote: > Hello list, > . After spending two days compiling LFS in a xen DomU, I ended up > spending another 2 days trying to figure out why I couldn't get a > login prompt after booting. It turned out to be something very simple, > namely that LFS is only configured for tty's, whereas xen requires (at > least in 4.3 and up, and probably all 4.1 and up) output to go to the > hvc0 device. To get this to work, I ended up borrowing a line from my > gentoo /etc/inittab: > > c0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 hvc0 linux >
Hello JMW, http://www-archive.xenproject.org/files/xensummit_4/xensummit_linux_console_slides.pdf That document provides some interesting information regarding console devices and xen. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
