On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:25:39PM -0500, St?phane Larose wrote: > I agree - not creating the serial device would be a problem for a pci serial > card.
Ok, let's drop this option then > > Is there a way we can support both? What if we create a ttySG0 file in > > init-udev-devices and pass console=ttySG0 to the kernel[2]? > > If that works, I don't think its a big deal to ask altix users to pass > > console=ttySG0 to the installer - we could even put it in the elilo > > help menu (which isn't localized). > > > > St?phane: can you test these two patches and report back what works? > > If /proc isn't mounted at this point, you might remove the if > > statement around [2]. > > The first patch works. When testing the second one, I realized that passing > console=xx or CONSOLE=xx is not the same (sorry about that). console in > lowercase is used by the kernel as the console and not keep as an environment > variable. Using CONSOLE in uppercase is not used by the kernel but passed as > an environment variable. The way I read the busybox source, it looks for CONSOLE= first then console=: static void console_init(void) { ... if ((s = getenv("CONSOLE")) != NULL || (s = getenv("console")) != NULL) { safe_strncpy(console, s, sizeof(console)); ... I don't really understand how kernel command line options become env vars though - is something preventing console= from being an env var at this point? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]