Re: serial console in single mode does not function

From: Craig (craig@wombat.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 17:21:21 EST


I had the exact same problem on an earlier thread moving from 2.4.10 to 2.4.17.
Updating the /sbin/init to a newer version (from sysvinit package) fixed my
problems and made my serial console work in 2.4.17.

Good luck.

--
Craig.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Andrejs Dubovskis wrote:

> When system with serial console is started in single mode it boots > shell. But any button pressed in terminal does not go to console. > Looks like hanged system. Nothing changed but kernel (2.4.14) only > and serial console works as expected: any pressed chars are displayed > in console. > Kernels 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 was checked and do not function. > Systems are Alpha Avanti and Alpha Miata (some info provided below). > > [andrejs@host linux]$ cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.17 (andrejs@host) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 > (Red Hat Linux 7.0)) #1 Wed Jan 2 09:37:16 EET 2002 > > [andrejs@host linux]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > cpu : Alpha > cpu model : EV56 > cpu variation : 7 > cpu revision : 0 > cpu serial number : > system type : Miata > system variation : 0 > system revision : 0 > system serial number : > cycle frequency [Hz] : 499747351 est. > timer frequency [Hz] : 1024.00 > page size [bytes] : 8192 > phys. address bits : 40 > max. addr. space # : 127 > BogoMIPS : 992.88 > kernel unaligned acc : 0 (pc=0,va=0) > user unaligned acc : 12 (pc=1200027e8,va=20000284712) > platform string : Digital Personal WorkStation 500au > cpus detected : 1 > > [andrejs@host linux]$ cat /etc/aboot.conf > 1:1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0 single > > [andrejs@host linux]$ cat /proc/ioports > 0000-001f : dma1 > 0020-003f : pic1 > 0040-005f : timer > 0060-006f : keyboard > 0070-0080 : rtc > 0070-007f : rtc > 00a0-00bf : pic2 > 00c0-00df : dma2 > 0170-0177 : ide1 > 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) > 0376-0376 : ide1 > 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) > 8000-807f : Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 > 8000-807f : tulip > 8080-808f : Contaq Microsystems 82c693 (#2) > 8080-8087 : ide0 > 8088-808f : ide1 > 9000-90fe : qlogicisp > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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