On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:14:41PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm...yeah, I still don't know. Do let me know if you find anything in
the kernel source about serial consoles. I'm still looking here, but
haven't found anything.
> 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.
Ah ha! Yeah, totally forgot about that. Thanks Phil. Fixing now.
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