Re: [uml-user] Getting rid of some of Virtual Console xterms

[Ingo S. <br...@th...>]

On Sat, 29 May 2004 17:23:57 +0100
Jim Peters <ji...@ua...> wrote:

> Maybe Mandrake touches them somehow.  Why not disable them completely
> with the con=null ssl=null con0=fd:0,fd:1 etc etc kind of thing?  See
> here:
> 
>   http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/input.html
>   http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/switches.html

I wasn't too familiar with those options. First tries led to not being
able to login at all (sshd not installed yet). 

Finally I started UML with 'con3=none con4=none con5=none con6=none' in
addition. That got rid of virtual consoles 3 to 6 and displayed an error
message during bootup which helped me identify the place where Mandrake
uses the additional consoles.

In script

  /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

there are the following lines

  for i in 2 3 4 5 6; do
      > /dev/tty$i 2> /dev/null
  done

After removing 3 to 6 I only get 2 consoles instead of 6. Problem solved
;-)

Thanks for giving me a pointer to look into the input options of UML.
Ingo

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