[Fedora-ia64-list] Problems with Fedora core 4 on itanium.

Luck, Tony tony.luck at intel.com
Wed Aug 17 16:52:12 UTC 2005


>On that machine, we had noticed that kernels older than 2.6.10 need
>console=ttyS0 while newer kernels need console=ttyS3.  But neither worked
>for me.  I in fact tried ttyS0,1,2,3 and 4 and gave up...

What kernel version is FC4 using?  There was a PCDP fix by David
Mosberger that went in between 2.6.13-rc3 and -rc4 that cured some
interesting problems with getting the right console= lines on the
boot command line.  Exact commit for this change is at:

 http://tinyurl.com/bvx5r

-Tony




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