From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272628AbTHEKNS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272625AbTHEKNS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0400 Received: from zmamail03.zma.compaq.com ([161.114.64.103]:32265 "EHLO zmamail03.zma.compaq.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272611AbTHEKNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 06:13:14 -0400 Posted-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 05:13:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3F2F84D2.8000202@nospam.com> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 05:20:02 -0500 From: wb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Blazejowski Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Patrick Mansfield , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:84 References: <20030801182207.GA3759@blazebox.homeip.net> <20030801144455.450d8e52.akpm@osdl.org> <20030803015510.GB4696@blazebox.homeip.net> <20030802190737.3c41d4d8.akpm@osdl.org> <20030803214755.GA1010@blazebox.homeip.net> <20030803145211.29eb5e7c.akpm@osdl.org> <20030803222313.GA1090@blazebox.homeip.net> <20030803223115.GA1132@blazebox.homeip.net> <20030804093035.A24860@beaverton.ibm.com> <1060021614.889.6.camel@blaze.homeip.net> <1352160000.1060025773@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <5793.199.181.174.146.1060050091.squirrel@www.blazebox.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Aug 2003 10:13:12.0998 (UTC) FILETIME=[2DBB3460:01C35B3A] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I'll look into serial console and try to set it up.Do i need extra > hardware or cables to run serial console? any poniters or setup > suggestions would be welcome as i never used serial consoles before. > Regards, > > Paul > - Your need a NULL modem serial cable available from any computer store. Install uucp - I use on the HOST : uucp-1.06.1-33.7.2. Also , LILO is broken on some machines and ignores serial input so make sure you use at least lilo-21.6-71 On the TARGET 1. Connect the serial ports together ( COM1->COM1 ) with the serial cable . 2. Modify LILO to use serial line on the TARGET add to lilo.conf: append="console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0 " serial=0,9600N8 Run lilo 3. Add to /etc/inittab on the HOST S0:s12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 4. To see ALL THE CONSOLE MESSAGES during boot on the TARGET mv /dev/console /dev/console.org ln /dev/ttyS0 /dev/console 5. Start uucp on the HOST: cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 9600 6. Boot your target /// John Donnelly AT HP DOT com