Leif Sawyer wrote: > Well, it's not hanging, I'm sure, just not displaying a login prompt, > because it's trying to put one on ttyS0 -- which is broken. > > > How do I force login on ttyS1 ? I've tried using the console=ttyS1,9600n8 > but that stops printing at "mem_init: calling free_all_bootmem" and just > 'hangs' completely. > > Help!
The LiveCD logic assumes that if you have a serial console it'll be on ttya (ttyS0). It's not made to deal with broken machines or alternate weird setups. You'll either have to remake the livecd* if you want to change that or make it a proud head-bearer. (*) Rebuilding the livecd requires catalyst running on a sparc64 machine. You can avoid this by doing some magic by looking at the scripts and being able to modify the startup script involved in setting up the serial console by extracting it from the squashfs loop, then rebuilding said loop filesystem, and rebuilding the ISO with the specially crafted mkisofs with the corresponding silo 1.2.6 version because newer silo versions have broken isofs code that doesn't work on some machines. In other words, it's easier to fix the machine somehow... -- Gustavo Zacarias Gentoo/SPARC monkey -- [email protected] mailing list
