Paul on Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:41:08 -0400 |
Small problem. When I boot my system without having my serial console attached, the system will not boot on its own. After I connect the serial cable, start minicom, and press enter, I see the following: ---------------------------------------------- Welcome to minicom 1.83.1 OPTIONS: History Buffer, F-key Macros, Search History Buffer, I18n Compiled on Aug 28 2001, 15:09:33. Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
If I boot with the console connected everything works fine. Did I miss something or mess up somewhere? Here's what I did to enable the serial console: Added to /etc/grub.conf: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS1,115200n8 Added to /etc/inittab: S1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS1 115200 vt100 Here's what a normal boot looks from the serial console: --------------------------------------------- Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 17:21:28 1BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS1,115200n8 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 100.228 MHz processor. Console: colour EGA 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 199.88 BogoMIPS Memory: 61420k/65536k available (1280k kernel code, 3344k reserved, 90k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. Intel old style machine check architecture supported. Intel old style machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 05 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: none PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'CPI ViVa CommCenter/SP 33.6' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS00 at port 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d block: queued sectors max/low 40738kB/13579kB, 128 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio hda: SAMSUNG SHD-30560A (APRO-5) SSI, ATA DISK drive hdb: CDA46803I, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: 1096048 sectors (561 MB) w/126KiB Cache, CHS=543/32/63, DMA ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is an 8272A ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 319k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.2.6 starting Loading jbd module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3 module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating root device Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed INIT: version 2.78 booting Welcome to Red Hat Linux Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Mounting proc filesystem: [ OK ] Unmounting initrd: [ OK ] Configuring kernel parameters: [ OK ] Setting clock (localtime): Mon Sep 23 23:32:13 EDT 2002 [ OK ] Activating swap partitions: [ OK ] Setting hostname Webcam1: [ OK ] Mounting USB filesystem: [ OK ] Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci): [ OK ] Checking root filesystem /: clean, 33166/120360 files, 353650/480784 blocks [/sbin/fsck.ext3 -- /] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/hda1 [ OK ] Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] Setting hard drive parameters for hda: [ OK ] Finding module dependencies: [ OK ] Checking filesystems Checking all file systems. [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ] Enabling swap space: [ OK ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Entering non-interactive startup Starting system logger: [ OK ] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] Loading keymap: [ OK ] Loading system font: [ OK ] Initializing random number generator: [ OK ] Starting crond: [ OK ] Starting anacron: [ OK ] Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i586 Webcam1 login: --------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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