Bug 11513
| Summary: | Cannot select different kernels through serial console at boot | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | david |
| Component: | lilo | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-06-29 20:31:34 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Do you still experience this in newer releases of Red Hat Linux? I found that if I remove this line in /etc/lilo.conf message=/boot/message then I am able to select different kernels and pass boot options to lilo from a serial console session. But with that line in lilo.conf, it causes lilo to boot the first available kernel immediately without giving a boot prompt. This is true for all of the 7.x versions I have tried. Yes, message= conflicts with serial. Anaconda will now only set up one or the other. Changing lilo so that you can have both isn't likely to happen as GRUB is our recommended boot loader these days. |
With Redhat 6.0, I am able to select different kernels from the Lilo prompt when using a serial console, by pressing the TAB key. With Redhat 6.1, pressing the TAB key when using a serial console has no affect on Lilo and does not allow for selection of different kernels. Here is my /etc/lilo.conf file. boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 default=linux serial=0,19200n8 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15 label=linux root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.15.img read-only append = "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20 label=linux-2.2.12 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img read-only root=/dev/sda1