Console does not show login prompt

[Lonni J Friedman]

Yea, how did you define your console when booting?  What's the output
from "cat /proc/cmdline" ?

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On 08/18/2013 11:40 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> On 18/08/2013 2:35 PM, Vu Pham wrote:
>>> I need to convert an old Redhat 9 server to a virtual server so I made a
>>> disk image of this old server, moved it to a KVM server and imported it
>>> as a virtual server. I could make it start to level 3 with all services
>>> starting properly and I am able to remotely log into this server.
>>
>> Maybe your VM's hardware was different from the PC that ran the Redhat 9
>> in physical world, notably the video part....
>
> Thanks Man-wai. The console uses (virtual) serial port ttyS0, not the
> video. Thru this port I can see all the boot messages until the rc.local
> script, so the port is working.
>
> But it is a good idea to check if I can see anything thru the vnc.
>
> Vu
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