failed to booting l4linux from serial console

Adam Lackorzynski adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Sat Dec 23 11:34:11 CET 2006


On Sat Dec 23, 2006 at 17:53:46 +0800, chenggh wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 16:26, halo duan wrote:
> > Hi all
> >     as my graphic card of my pc can not support l4dope, I boot l4linux from
> > serial console, my grub configuration looks like following
> 	Oh, My l4linux is 2.6.17. I test it works well.
> 	In the l4 configuration of l4linux i think there is no special option to be 
> choose except the l4 build directory. 
> 	and in the linux configuration of l4linux, the options about serial console 
> is like this:

Please note that you are interfering with the uart here which is not
recommended. You can do that of course but then you also need to disable
its usage in the kernel to be safe. I recommend using the L4_SERIAL
driver.

> 	# Serial drivers
> 	#
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=4
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=4
> 	# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED is not set
> 
> 	#
> 	# Non-8250 serial port support
> 	#
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE=y
> 	CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
> 	# CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM is not set
> 	CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> 	CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
> 	CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
> 
> 	according to some errors I suggest you close the option loading module 
> automatically. 

Which errors are you referring to?



Adam
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