Revert to just running /bin/bash on /dev/console for serial. We still start getty...

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 37e1483c9a1238fab6c8a17f817fb7cf591b2844..1686d93ac165718bd9f16ac5e0c269df6d6ade55 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni, Andrew Gaffney
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  24 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> netboot/linuxrc.x:
+  Revert to just running /bin/bash on /dev/console for serial. We still
+  start getty on tty2-6
+
   23 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_cmdline.sh:
   Allow old 'initramfs' option instead of 'ramdisk' for compatability
 

diff --git a/netboot/linuxrc.x b/netboot/linuxrc.x
index 674cde30beae2da20471cc923c6231fc09ef29ed..8586ff691b35ae3a73926e5eb9b7d1ed95b4b02e 100755 (executable)
--- a/netboot/linuxrc.x
+++ b/netboot/linuxrc.x
@@ -307,8 +307,13 @@ LaunchShell() {
                getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty${i} &
        done
 
-       # We run the getty for tty1 in the foreground so our pid 1 doesn't end
-       getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty1
+#      # We run the getty for tty1 in the foreground so our pid 1 doesn't end
+#      getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty1
+
+       # We were running the above code, but that doesn't work well on serial. Until
+       # we can autodetect a serial console and start a getty there, we'll just run
+       # ash on /dev/console
+       /bin/ash
 }
 
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