Thanks Tigran. You are right. I have one additional
variable/parameter pair being passed on that append line.
The console=tty0 is the last variable/parameter pair passed.
I'll have to boot my laptop and check to character count.
BTW: Is that character limit documented? Is there some
important reason why that constraint is placed on the
length of the append line. It seems quite arbitrary and
unnecessarily restrictive.
I will test test5 ASAP. Thanks for the information regarding
the kmem_cache_alloc() fix.
Miles
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
>
> >
> > After reading the serial-console.txt info in linux/Documentation,
> > I added the append="console=ttyS2,115200 console=tty0" to my lilo
> > entry and reran lilo. Everything appears to work on the serial
> > port end, but all I get on the VT window is a few initial lines
> > of output about the kernel being decompressed and then I eventually
> > get a login prompt.
>
> Are you sure you showed us your entire command line? Isn't the truth
> slightly longer than that? You see, the limit on command line size is 79
> bytes so if your total length is approaching this limit and
> "console=tty0" is at the end if can easily get chopped off.
>
> Seeing you are the same guy who reported the oops in kmem_cache_alloc() -
> did you try 2.4.0-test5? It contains the suggested fix.
>
> Regards,
> Tigran
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