Re: Install report: Woody on a SGI Indy R5000
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:46:51PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > ths@iris14:~$ dmesg |grep baud
> > Console: ttyS0 (Zilog8530), 38400 baud
> >
> > Should work quite well. :-)
>
> It works yes - The problem is that there are 3 party involved in the
> serial console which makes it hard to provide a consistent look and feel
> to the user. First there is the kernel console for all kernel messages
> until "mounting root" and the later coming kernel oopes and stuff. Then
> there is the userspace /dev/console stuff where all bootup message come
> through. The baud rate of the former is set by the kernel command line.
> I am unshure about /dev/console which might come from /etc/ioctl.save
> via "init". Then there is the login getty on /dev/console which has
> a baud rate on its command line as an argument.
Shouldn't getty use the `real' /dev/tty* instead of /dev/console? Else if I
pass e.g. console=tty0 to the kernel, getty will suddenly use a different
console.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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