You might need the console devs on the initrd.
<< ryan
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jordan Share wrote:
> Jordan Share wrote:
> > Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> >
> >> Jordan Share <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>> What is it that you want me to try with the Linux boot disk? I have
> >>> tried it out on system I had handy, but there is nothing on the
> >>> serial port (after the PXE boot completes, anyway).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Add something like this to the "append" line of pxelinux.cfg/default:
> >>
> >> console=ttyS0,9600
> >>
> >
> > Ok, I get this:
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed
> > WELCOME!!!
> > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> > **** Master script exited!
> > bash-2.05b#
> >
> > I tried it with just "console=ttyS0,9600" and with "console=tty0
> > console=ttyS0,9600". Both times I got the same error. Both times only
> > over the serial, not on the physical console.
> >
> > When I didn't have the "console=tty0" entry, I get no output after "Ok,
> > booting the kernel" on the screen (which is expected).
> >
> > With it, I don't get any output after "Freeing unused kernel memory:
> > 112k freed".
> >
>
> Changing the appends to "console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty" causes it to
> progress as usual, but with only kernel messages going to the serial
> console (not the input of the script).
>
> Jordan
>
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