I had a similar problem, to fix it I had to mknod a console. This had to
be done as part of the boot as I could not log on!
Apologies if my terminology is not quite right - I am new to this, but
here goes
in /etc/inittab, I already had the lines
=======================================
# This line provides a nice out-of-box experience. For regular use, you
# should replace it with the proper getty lines below.
con:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty console
=======================================
I added the following lines in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/rcS
====================
mknod /dev/console c 4 64
mknod /dev/ttySER c 4 64
chmod 666 /dev/console
chmod 666 /dev/ttySER
=====================
This allowed the console to run, and afterwards I could delete the lines
added to rcS. You should be able to do this over ssh.
I am not sure if this release has changed something about device nodes -
I am still having some problems with mounting compact flash drives over
the USB which (nearly) worked before which I suspect is a similar issue.
Hope this helps,
Andrew Goeldner.
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:25 +0200, Kai Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a very strange problem with my serial console since I updated
> from git tag "2.6.25-davinci1" to the most current master tree:
>
> During the early boot process, when the kernel sends messages to the
> console, everything works fine. But then, after the init process is
> started, the boot messages appear only after pressing the return key. It
> is also impossible to login on the serial console because of this
> behaviour (but I can do remote logins).
>
> Switching back to an old kernel version (2.6.25-davinci1) solves this
> problem instantly without touching the root filesystem (Debian lenny -
> armel).
>
> I already searched the git log for any clues, but did not find anything
> suspect. But maybe someone else has an idea about this...
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Kai
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