I plugged in a serial cable and this what I got: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console ---- "i dont know what this means" Starting up X11 session manager... Welcome to Linux 2.4.18 (ttyS0) tst_box login: Regards Danny
H. Peter Anvin
2002-Jun-25 20:37 UTC
[syslinux] not able to boot serial console then to GDM/X
dano wrote:> I plugged in a serial cable and this what I got: > > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console ---- "i dont > know what this means" > Starting up X11 session manager... > > Welcome to Linux 2.4.18 (ttyS0) > tst_box login: >Please make sure that /dev/console and /dev/tty0 are (5,1) and (4,0), respectively. Also, some older versions of X incorrectly opened /dev/console instead of /dev/tty0, you may want to check. Anyway, this is getting to be massively offtopic for the SYSLINUX mailing list. -hpa