Re: [uml-user] Re: login-prompt on con0?

[BlaisorBlade <bla...@ya...>]

On Thursday 25 March 2004 13:34, Sven K=F6hler wrote:
> > The intention is to spawn a login prompt on the console (using the aget=
ty
> > program). The 'c' refers to the system console, the '2345' refers to the
> > relevant runlevels for this command, the 'respawn' tells init to restart
> > the process upon exit, and the remainder, '/sbin/agetty 9600 console',
> > defines the command and parameters to be executed.
>
> i tried an agetty on /dev/console now, and it doesn't work.
>
> > I am a bit confused as to why your console would have initially prompted
> > for a login if inittab was missing a similar entry. Unfortunately, your
> > later post indicates that your problem is probably not related to this.=
=2E.
>
> i used tty0 instead of console. using console or tty0 doesn't make any
> difference. it still doesn't work.
Well, there must be some other problem (maybe your command line setting of=
=20
con0=3D is wrong, try con0=3Dxterm), but you must use /dev/tty0; /dev/conso=
le=20
would cause even other subtle problems, like Ctrl-C not working at all.

Bye
=2D-=20
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade
Linux registered user n. 292729