Re: [Xen-users] inittab corrupted/serial console broken on Xen-ified kernel?

[Sadique Puthen <sputhenp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can I see your grub.conf from dom0 and the output  of "dmesg | grep tty" 
from the same?
--Sadique

Evan Lavelle wrote:
> I've just installed Fedora 8 / xen-2.6.21 on a headless server, but I 
> can't get a serial console login on the Xen version of the kernel.
> 1 - If I boot into 2.6.23.8-63.fc8, the serial console login works as 
> expected
> 2 - If I boot into 2.6.21-2952.fc8xen instead, I get all the expected 
> serial output up to the end of the boot process, but no login.
> When I boot into the xen kernel, inittab is modified, and the 
> modification removes the agetty on ttyS0. If I compare the old inittab 
> with the new inittab, I get:
> 46,47c46
> < # co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 96 9600 vt100-nav
> < co:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 115200 vt100
> ---
> >  co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 96 9600 vt100-nav
>
> In other words, a commented entry was uncommented, and the following 
> line was deleted, which explains why I can't log in. This is so 
> bizarre that it almost looks like it was done on purpose (was it ? :))
> Anyone seen this? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks -
>
> Evan
>
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