Console does not show login prompt

[vu Pham]

On 8/18/2013 2:04 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Yea, how did you define your console when booting?  What's the output
> from "cat /proc/cmdline" ?

It is "ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200".
Below is the grub.conf

#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-6)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 
console=ttyS0,115200
         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6.img

Thanks,
Vu

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> 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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