[parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

Richard Hirst rhirst@linuxcare.com
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:30:04 +0100


On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:21:16PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > > I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0?
> > >
> > > Tom: Does it ?  If not, then that's why it's failing.
> >
> > Tom, I just saw you already answered this.
> > So please forget about my mail.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Helge
> 
> No problem :-)  Actually, my only remaining question is why disabling the
> tty[x] entries in inittab would be a default behavior; I had changed it
> with 0.9 and the install of 0.91 changed it back. Weird.
> 
> Anyway, that might be a good thing to change for a 1.0 release - assuming
> the console will be serial could be bad...

Installer should auto detect whether it is on a serial on graphical
console, and set up inittab appropriately.  Sounds like it got confused
in your case.  Not aware of anyone else having that problem.

Richard