| Summary: | Console on serial port doesn't work in genkernel-built kernels | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ronan Mullally <ronan> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Bob Johnson (RETIRED) <livewire> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | zhen |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.4 | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Ronan Mullally
2003-08-12 02:59:52 UTC
Ooops - sorry about that - dodgy key bindings! I'm using an ancient, headless i586 and rely on serial console support. Kernels built by the genkernel utility include serial support as a module, as a result serial console support is not available - serial support needs to be compiled into the kernel in order for this to work. -Ronan specifically, what needs enabled? Just serial console support under character devices? Standard / Generic serial support needs to be compiled into the kernel rather than as a module. Once that's enabled you then need to select 'console on serial port' as an option. kernel config issue |
