From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: Serial console funnies Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:58:28 +0000 Message-ID: <20050126085828.GA17192@tykepenguin.com> References: <20050125111134.GD18925@tykepenguin.com> <4AB0C024-6F19-11D9-8E81-000393B01B94@nodnol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB0C024-6F19-11D9-8E81-000393B01B94@nodnol.org> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:37:20PM +0000, Chris Andrews wrote: > > On 25 Jan 2005, at 11:11, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > > >I can see the system boot up into dom0 and I get the login prompt so > >it all > >looks setup correctly, but it won't take keyboard input - at least not > >into the > >login process on dom0. if I ssh into the box and try to read from the > >serial > >port I still get nothing. > > I have had exactly this problem with every Xen 2.0 release I've tried. > I am definitely running a getty in dom0; I get the actual login prompt. > > Is your machine doing some sort of BIOS serial console redirection? My > Dell PE1650 has this turned on, but "off after boot" according to the > settings. As no one else had reported this I'd put the problem down to > Dell weirdness. I don't think so - I don't remember seeing anything like that. mind you the box hasn't had a monitor on in in nearly a year now! It's not a DELL machine, it's a Western Scientific, fairly old by today's standards it's a dual PIII/750 on (I think) a VIA chipset. -- patrick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl