David Cantrell wrote:
> There are no serial console settings in the kernel source on SPARC, so I'm
> pretty sure that you can just hit enter at the boot prompt. The SPARC
> hardware handles redirecting everything to the serial port, so I think
> that's why there's no special serial console drivers.
I do see loader messages coming out. I think those get output through PROM
calls. But the kernel drives the console itself once it gets started, so it
has to know where it goes and handle it. It may be something in the kernel
like the console device name list not being correct for Sparc or something.
I'll have to go take a look and see what it's doing.
As for the root password prompt, I think I found the problem. Inside color.gz
in file /etc/securetty there needs to be listed ttyS0 and ttyS1 and any other
console device that may be used.
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