On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:30:49PM -0400, A. R. Vener wrote: <snip> > Since GRUB and getty both work with the ttyS0 serial port, there > is obviously nothing wrong with it per se. So I am left with the > conclusion that for some reason the kernel is refusing to use the ttyS0 port > as its console. <snip> Are you sure that you compiled that support into your kernel? If you don't have support for using the serial port as the system console option set, then the kernel can not use it wheb booting and will have to use the video/keyboard instead. -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
