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List:       leaf-user
Subject:    Re: [leaf-user] 2.3-rc1 without vga
From:       Martin Hejl <martin () hejl ! de>
Date:       2005-09-18 7:44:46
Message-ID: 432D1AEE.8000501 () hejl ! de
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sander wrote:
> what I understand, /dev/tty1 and /dev/tty2  should be started anyway.
> like leave ability use video card without change configuration.
I don't think that will work. But I don't think I've ever tried, since
having a console on the serial port is sufficient to me.

> additional info about boot fail, redirect output to com port not add. I
> add there, wenever boot fail keybord indicate kernel panic.
I'm not quite sure what that means.

To be able to boot without video card, using a serial port as the
console, make sure you did the following:

change /etc/inittab
make sure that
#1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
#2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
is commented out (as Eric said).

make sure that
T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100
is not commented out (make a note of the speed - 19200 here - since
you'll need to have the same in syslinux.cfg as well as in the
serial-port settings on your client)

change syslinux.cfg
comment out
#display syslinux.dpy

change
default linux initrd=initrd.lrp ...
to
default linux console=ttyS0,19200 initrd=initrd.lrp ...

(all the above assumes the console should run on your first serial port
- replace ttyS0 with ttyS1 in all examples above if you want to run it
on the second serial port).

Basically, you should try to get your system to boot just with a serial
console first. If you want to experiment later on how to configure
everything in a way that it will also support a video-card if present,
that's ok - but I wouldn't try to do everything at once.

I hope that helps

Martin


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