Console does not show login prompt

[Lonni J Friedman]

I suspect that what you're experiencing is expected behavior if you've
instructed the kernel to send the console to a serial device.  If you
remove the console= parameters, does that fix the problem?

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:38 AM, vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>>
>> 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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