Messages in this thread | | | Date | 9 May 2004 15:32:31 +0200 | Date | Sun, 9 May 2004 15:32:31 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 |
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On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:29:11PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > R. J. Wysocki wrote: > >On Saturday 08 of May 2004 13:31, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>"R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl> wrote: > >> > >>>Sute, it's like that: > >>> > >>>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-rc3-mm2 root=/dev/sdb3 vga=792 hdc=ide-scsi > >>>console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 > >> > >>Please try `console=ttyS0'. > > > > > >I have. It does not help. :-( > > > >Still, reversing the Move-saved_command_line-to-init-mainc.patch _does_ > >help, even with the above command line. I guess it's an x86_64-specific > >issue. > > I had the same problem (serial console was broken on -mm on x86_64). I > switched to i386, did 'make oldconfig', and rebuild, and it worked. I > think this was 2.6.5-mm1. > > Sorry I can't test it now -- I plan on sticking with 32 bit for a while > longer.
It is all the fault of Move-saved_command_line-to-init-mainc.patch which unfortunately has been in -mm* for some time.
It simply breaks all boot arguments on x86-64.
Just get rid of that and the console is fine. Or use mainline.
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