Re: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:41 -0500, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While booting, I get the following error/warning message which keeps 
> repeating until I press CTRL-C after which the boot process continues 
> normally and everything is fine.
> 
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> 
> This is a e450 box and I am accessing it through the serial console 
> /dev/ttyS0.
> In /etc/inittab, I commented out the tty entries
> 
> #1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
> tty1                                         
> #2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
> tty2                                           
> #3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
> tty3                                           
> #4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
> tty4                                           
> #5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 
> tty5                                           
> #6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 

i leave all those lines uncommented in my setup. (it doesnt hurt)

> and uncommented
> 
> T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100

good.

also i add a kernel boot parameter in my menu.lst file.

# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600

-matt zagrabelny