From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F133F482C for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 02:32:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id BAD4DB00C; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:30:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:30:04 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: Tom Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console? Message-ID: <20010718093004.Z30356@linuxcare.com> References: <200107172125.NAA09485@goliath> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from tom@alaskatech.org on Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:21:16PM -0800 List-ID: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:21:16PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Helge Deller wrote: > > > > I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0? > > > > > > Tom: Does it ? If not, then that's why it's failing. > > > > Tom, I just saw you already answered this. > > So please forget about my mail. > > > > Greetings, > > Helge > > No problem :-) Actually, my only remaining question is why disabling the > tty[x] entries in inittab would be a default behavior; I had changed it > with 0.9 and the install of 0.91 changed it back. Weird. > > Anyway, that might be a good thing to change for a 1.0 release - assuming > the console will be serial could be bad... Installer should auto detect whether it is on a serial on graphical console, and set up inittab appropriately. Sounds like it got confused in your case. Not aware of anyone else having that problem. Richard