Hello Maurice ,
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> With regards to your message at 08:52 PM 3/30/02, Mr. James W. Laferriere.
> Where you stated:
> > I have a MB that allows me to redirect all bios output to the
> > serial port & have set it up to do so . This system will be
> > placed well offsite and away from helping hands . I have read &
> > setup (afaict) the lilo.conf appropriately per serial-console.txt
> > and have run 'lilo -v 3' . The system is running a bootable raid1 .
> > What is happening is the serial console is not working when using
> > the kernel on the raid . It is like the lilo commands are not
> > being run against the md device at all .
> > The kernel on the md device is 2.4.19-pre3 .
> When you pass your parameters to the kernel, like:
> root=/boot/vmlinuz.gz "console=/dev/ttyS0,19,200"
> Are you enclosing the parameters in quotes?
I have placed the parameters in lilo.conf & run lilo .
I can see I need to explain better what is/has been happening .
The on disk kernel will not finish booting . So in an attempt to
capture the output to put on the linux-kernel & linux-raid lists .
I have been attempting to get the 'kernel' that s/b booting to use
the serial console . I'll need this functionality later anyway .
I have had to resort to using a rescue boot cdrom that allows me
to boot using its kernel (2.4.5 based) and set the root=/dev/md0
and to set console=/dev/ttyS0,9600 . When I boot using the rescue
cdrom all comes up well .
In order to run a lilo (that understands 'device = /dev/md0') on
the boot disks in question I have to have lilo-21_8 or better , I
chose lilo-22_2 . The lilo on the cdrom is lilo-21_7 and is not
capable of the device statement I mentioned above .
When I run the lilo command against the kernels on the system with
actual partitions mounted & then reboot the changes in the
lilo.conf are NOT reflected in that next reboot . IE: it is as if
I had never modified the lilo.conf or run lilo on those bootable
partitions . I hope this makes the difficulty I am seeing clearer .
I have during this converse remembered that I can do the same at
the boot: command of the offending kernel as well . So I shall
post the output from that shortly .
Tia , JimL
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