Re: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

[Arshavir Grigorian <ag@m-cam.com>]

Matt Zagrabelny wrote:

> 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
Thanks. That didn't seem to help. Adding the console option as follows 
resulted in a bunch of empty screens after which everything worked fine. 
After the second reboot, the machine never came up and only got back 
after a hard reboot.

silo.conf
------------
append="md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 console=ttyS0,9600"

On a different note, when I have the tty lines uncommented, the system 
starts dumping garbage on the serial console and saying that getty is 
respawning too quickly and needs to sleep for 5 minutes.


Arshavir