Re: [Xen-devel] Serial console funnies

[Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have a dual-processor machine with no keyboard/monitor on it that I would 
> like
> to use for Xen but I'm having problems getting the serial console to work
> properly.
> 
> I can see the system boot up into dom0 and I get the login prompt so it all
> looks setup correctly, but it won't take keyboard input - at least not into 
> the
> login process on dom0. if I ssh into the box and try to read from the serial
> port I still get nothing.
> 
> However, if I do ^a^a^a I can interact with the Xen code, so the serial port
> itself is working, it just seems like it's not getting passed down to dom0.
> 
> I've had this from 2.0->2.0.3 and also with the latest unstable bk.
> 
> FWIW this is my grub entry:
> 
> title Xen (2.0/Linux 2.6.10)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /xen.gz com1=57600,8n1 dom0_mem=131072
>         module /vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 ro root=/dev/sda5 console=ttyS0

Are you running a getty on /dev/ttyS0 -- have a look in
/etc/inittab. You'll probably need to edit /etc/securetty
too. Setup is per standard Linux console.

Ian


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