Re: serial terminal and reboot troubleshooting with new kernel
In article <[🔎] 20040109044549.72896.qmail@web20729.mail.yahoo.com>,
truck loser <debian_posting@yahoo.com> 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?
Is your /dev/console character major 5 minor 1 ?
# ls -l /dev/console
crw------- 1 root tty 5, 1 2003-12-23 13:50 /dev/console
If not:
# cd /dev
# rm console
# ./MAKEDEV console
There is one other thing. If you upgrade to 'testing', you might
get sysvinit/sysv-rc/initscripts version 2.85-7. That version
shows the symptoms you describe if you define a serial console
w/ baudrate on the kernel command line. Upgrade to 2.85-9 from
unstable (or wait until it hits 'testing').
Mike.
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