From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:26:49 +0000 Subject: Re: Serial console? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > Hi, > > Marc Duponcheel wrote: > > PS: I could see some complaints about 'cua' being depreciated in favour of > > 'ttyS' on first bootup. I'll check what this is about. > > What it is: an attempt to get rid of the confusion caused by having pairs > of devices for one physical serial port - make all users go away, then > remove cua* in 2.3. > > Why you are seeing this: no idea, some program is accessing cua*, but I > have no idea which one... setconsole program is broken, if it detects serial console, it ln -sf /dev/console to /dev/cuaX. That is wrong with 2.1 kernels, where /dev/console should be always character 5,1. Install program runs setconsole, if it detects a serial console during install. So, either do you install from framebuffer, or after install rm -f /dev/console mknod /dev/console c 5 1 I promise to fix this soon, but as I mentioned in the last mail, we have to get consoles working again with 2.1.107 first. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.106 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________