Re: serial terminal and reboot troubleshooting with new kernel
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:45:49PM -0800, truck loser wrote:
> Recently I installed woody with the 2.2 kenel. When I upgraded to the
> 2.4 kernel I was left with too nerve racking problems. First, my
> serial terminal no longer prints out the startup and shutdown
> messages. Also, no iptables logging is showing up on the terminal
> (but is on monitor).Second, I cannot reboot. Computer shuts down,
> says Rebooting....... then I just get a blank screen.Anyone have any
> ideas?
Are you using the kernel command line, perhaps via the boot loader,
in order to tell the kernel that the main console is on a serial line?
You might want to check the LDP's Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.
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