[Fedora-xen] inittab corrupted/serial console broken on Xen-ified kernel?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Dec 14 19:54:23 UTC 2007


Evan Lavelle (sa212+fcxen at cyconix.com) said: 
>> Xen takes over the serial port; it's modifying the line to point
>> to the xen console device.
>
> Interesting. So the "Serial Console Login configuration" in the manual 
> (v3.0 User's Manual, p13) is wrong? The modified inittab is also incorrect; 
> an error message appears on the serial output, and in the system logs, 
> every 5 minutes ("Dec 14 17:52:35 thor init: Id "co" respawning too fast: 
> disabled for 5 minutes").

Yeah, the extra '96' seems wrong. Can you file a bug against kudzu?

> How do I get a remote login over a serial line? Is this still possible?

How are you booting xen? What's the command line?

Bill




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