From: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [RHEL5.1 Patch] ia64 xen: make ia64 pv xen guest installs possible and let non-HP systems actually boot Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:25:07 -0400 Bugzilla: 249076 Message-Id: <46A10C13.9060406@redhat.com> Changelog: [XEN] ia64: allow guests to vga install Jarod Wilson wrote: > At present (kernel-xen-2.6.18-34.el5.ia64), ia64 xen paravirt guests > always install via serial console text mode, even when the pvfb gets > successfully fired up (bug 249075). Additionally, many non-HP ia64 > systems that are only set up to output via vga fail to boot without > manually adding 'console=tty' to their kernel boot args (bug 249076). > The following one-line patch is to ia64-xen-specific code, so very > low-risk, low-impact, and it remedies both of these issues. -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@redhat.com --- linux-2.6.18/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c.org 2007-06-26 14:01:51.000000000 +0900 +++ linux-2.6.18/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c 2007-06-26 14:32:18.000000000 +0900 @@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ #if !defined(CONFIG_VT) || !defined(CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE) conswitchp = NULL; #endif + /* force set tty for RHEL5 */ + add_preferred_console("tty", 0, NULL); } } #endif