From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: After booting the install CD with console=ttyS0, and perfoming an installation with the serial line, the attempting to boot the installed disk: >>>b dkao -fl i aboot> b 1/vmlinuz-2.4.9-14a root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS0 ... the system disk boots, things startup until: Starting anaconds [OK] Starting atd [OK] hangs after the starting atd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install on system without graphics card (e.g. DS20L) - Have to boot manually, until aboot options fixed on CD and target disk >>> b dqa0 -fl i aboot> ... console=ttyS0 2. perform install, boot the hard disk (as per above) 3. Actual Results: On booting, some programs are started, but system hangs, after atd [OK] Expected Results: System to come up Additional info:
The system doesn't hang. The problem is that there is no inittab entry for ttyS0. Fixed in upcoming release. As a work-around. Do the following: 1- Boot in single user mode. 2- Add the following entry to /etc/inittab: 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r -s 9600 ttyS0
This is already documented in #58738. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58738 ***