Istvan Gabor said the following on 02/24/2010 05:00 AM:
But if you mean why does it think you're using a serial console rather than the PC's own console ... we'll need to know more about your hardware setup to answer that.
It is a desktop with a CRT monitor connected by a VGA cabel, not DVI. But as I recall my installation, it might be related to the thing I chose 'server installation' at very first time without any graphical interface, and added X and graphical stuff after that.
Could be. openSuse is on my laptop so I don't have that problem. My server is headless so I never see that issue anyway; just the results of the logs.
When the system boots both the graphical and text boot screens are shown on this monitor without any problem, the boot messages are scrolling through the screen. If I login in the first terminal window according to 'w' command it is tty1.
Istvan, can't you take a hint? Both Patrick and I have gone on about greping relevant files. (to say nothing of reading man pages!) You showed the line from /etc/init.d/boot.rootfsck: if test "$REDIRECT" = "/dev/tty1" ; then Doesn't it occur to you to find out HOW the variable REDIRECT was set in the first place? Go grep. Go look for the commands that set it. Go think what CONTEXT was running when it was set, cos it certainly wasn't the xterm, the GUI wasn't running, and you can arbitrarily hot-key and login at any terminal window, and YOU WEREN'T LOGGED IN at boot time. Go read the manual page on the shell and consider how you would add trace and debug to 'boot.roofsck' and how, since you're not logged in, you would monitor and control it. You're not approaching this in a methodological and logical manner no matter what hints Patrick and I give you. You are making us do all the work for you. -- Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles M. Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org