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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:55 -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:58:36AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:00 -0400, Scott Biddlestone wrote: |
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> > > > If you installed livecd-tools, the inittab is overwritten by |
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> > > > /sbin/livecd-functions.sh when the cd boots ( it is backed up to |
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> > > > inittab.old ). One way to fix it is to modify the script by creating |
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> > > > a new livecd-tools ebuild in your portage overlay - copy the current |
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> > > > ebuild and just add the patch to it. |
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> > > |
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> > > Please don't touch livecd-tools. Don't touch sysvinit. Instead, do |
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> > > the following in your livecd-stage2.spec file... |
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> > > |
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> > > livecd/bootargs: console=ttyS0,115200 |
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> > > |
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> > > That's it. When the CD is built, it'll have the console appended to |
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> > > both the "normal" and "nofb" kernels. Either kernel will work perfectly |
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> > > fine for serial console, so you're done. |
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> > Eh, isn't that only good for kernel output? I'd like to actually be |
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> > able to get a shell on the serial line... |
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> <rhetorical> |
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> Why don't people trust that the guy who writes all this crap knows what |
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> he's talking about? |
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> </rhetorical> |
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> :P |
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Your assertion is that it's completely obvous that a variable named |
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"bootargs", that passes options to the kernel, would have other magical |
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side effects? |
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> Normally, yes, it would only be good for kernel output, but as someone |
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> else mentioned, you have livecd-functions.sh that re-writes the inittab. |
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> Well, guess what triggers it? That's right, a "console=" option on the |
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> command line. If you type (or via catalyst, add) console=something, |
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> livecd-functions.sh (via functions.sh in baselayout) will interpret it |
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> and modify inittab accordingly before we ever even hit runlevel 3, so it |
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> starts a console on that serial line for login. |
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Seriously, can you cut and paste that paragraph into the manual? |
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Thanks for your help. |
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-J |
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