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Subject: Re: Lost console 
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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 11:25:13 +0900
From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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>: I think you should still be able to login to the system via network.
>: Send me /var/run/dmesg.out, /boot.config, /boot/loader.rc and your
>: kernel configuration file for examination.
>
>(Sorry.  Insufficient clarity is ever the petty hobgoblin that haunts
>my email.  Or is it otiose purple?  I forget.)
>
>What I mean to describe is that, from the time /boot/loader beings a
>"boot" until "Login:", no console activity is visible.  If it never
>gets that far -- c'est perdu.  Attempting to "boot -s" results in no
>better results:  No prompt ever appears.  Sometimes I can ctl-alt-del
>my way back to the BIOS, in order to boot a different kernel, and
>sometimes I can't.
>
>I'm expecting that there is a config element required in order to
>avoid this behaviour.  Inspection of GENERIC and LINT did not make
>it evident, however, and a bisection search on LINT would take an
>absurd amount of time, hence my query.

I am suspecting that somehow your system is trying to use the serial
console.

Please provide your /var/run/dmesg.out, /boot.config, /boot/loader.rc
and your kernel configuration file.  Without these info, it is
extremely difficult to give you any advice.

When you ever see "Login:" prompt, you should be able to login to the
system.  (It may take relatively a long time.)

Kazu


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