Comment out the exec line for console=*, since it seems to blow up when the param...

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4161ba6d0b0b3b674130b719a239349bd8c58638..dfbe9d7a8ed565455c33ccca7d808bf65f1aa7a0 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; 2008-2009 Various authors (see AUTHORS)
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  04 Feb 2009; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/linuxrc:
+  Comment out the exec line for console=*, since it seems to blow up when
+  the param isn't a true device node, such as ttyS0,115200n8
+
   19 Jan 2009; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> defaults/initrd.scripts,
   Remove detect_sbp2_devices() for gentoo bug #239474
 

diff --git a/defaults/linuxrc b/defaults/linuxrc
index cade3e0e3b5508945b846c371bf905fd8589f51d..3fac6ad9b7ad70e28d6a23058636fb22952f6d83 100755 (executable)
--- a/defaults/linuxrc
+++ b/defaults/linuxrc
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ do
                # Redirect output to a specific tty
                CONSOLE\=*|console\=*)
                        CONSOLE=`parse_opt "${x}"`
-                       exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1
+#                      exec >${CONSOLE} <${CONSOLE} 2>&1
                ;;
                # /dev/md
                lvmraid\=*)