Re: xen3: no access to console

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:45:51PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed and booted xen3 on my Dell D420.
> It seems to boot well expect I can't access the console.
> I can access the system via ssh but the console seems frozen on (XEN)
> message output:
> <snip>
> (XEN) Scrubbing Free RAM: ..........done.
> (XEN) Xen trace buffers: disabled
> 
> When I type things on the keyboard, they appear on the screen,
> owerwritting the (XEN) messages but it's like I was in vi in editing
> mode - that is, nothing happens on my strikes (even Ctrl-C).
> 
> Find my dmesg attached, but I didn't found any usefull message.

It looks like xencons is used as console instead of VGA. You need to
use 'console=ttyS0' or 'console=pc' on the netbsd line in grub.conf

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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