Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] changing inittab
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:49:08
Message-Id: 20070801215524.GF18333@ifa.hawaii.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] changing inittab by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:58:36AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:00 -0400, Scott Biddlestone wrote:
3 > > If you installed livecd-tools, the inittab is overwritten by
4 > > /sbin/livecd-functions.sh when the cd boots ( it is backed up to
5 > > inittab.old ). One way to fix it is to modify the script by creating
6 > > a new livecd-tools ebuild in your portage overlay - copy the current
7 > > ebuild and just add the patch to it.
8 >
9 > Please don't touch livecd-tools. Don't touch sysvinit. Instead, do
10 > the following in your livecd-stage2.spec file...
11 >
12 > livecd/bootargs: console=ttyS0,115200
13 >
14 > That's it. When the CD is built, it'll have the console appended to
15 > both the "normal" and "nofb" kernels. Either kernel will work perfectly
16 > fine for serial console, so you're done.
17
18 Eh, isn't that only good for kernel output? I'd like to actually be
19 able to get a shell on the serial line...
20
21 -J
22
23 --

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] changing inittab Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>