Ack! Only 4 uarts with FC6!

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:51:30AM -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
 > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 02:37 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:26:06PM -0700, Brian Mury wrote:
 > >  > One more observation: with that kernel paramter, I no longer get the
 > >  > graphical boot. Yes, I am still using the rhgb parameter... I don't
 > >  > really care, I just thought it was a little odd.
 > > 
 > > That is really bizarre. After booting, what does /proc/cmdline look like?
 > > Does it make a difference where in the commandline the rhgb is ?
 > 
 > No, it doesn't seem to make a difference. /proc/cmdline is currently:
 > 
 > ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 8250.nr_uarts=6 rhgb quiet
 > 
 > but I have tried other variations; I initially used:
 > 
 > ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet 8250.nr_uarts=6

Hmm, a real mystery.  Does X start up correctly when it gets to runlevel 5 ?
Might be interesting to boot in single user mode, and init 3, then check
out the X logs to see if there's any explanation in there.

	Dave

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