Re: [Fedora-xen] inittab corrupted/serial console broken on Xen-ified kernel?
Evan Lavelle (sa212+fcxen(a)cyconix.com) said:
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?
Xen takes over the serial port; it's modifying the line to point
to the xen console device.
Bill