Tested on alpine-1.9.0_alpha18.iso.

Using

console=ttyS0,9600

, alpine boots successfully (no call trace). However, the serial console does not work; it seems /etc/inittab is not automatically updated with the getty for the serial console to run. I tried manually running the serial console (vi /etc/inittab; kill -HUP 1), but there was no serial console. Running screen I am not able to use the serial port at all.

However, if I remove

console=ttyS0,9600

, the serial console can be used normally. Although /etc/inittab can be used in a committed apkovl to start the serial console, the boot messages are not displayed to the serial port in that configuration.

I can attach a dmesg if it may be helpful.

(from redmine: issue id 115, created on 2009-08-05, closed on 2009-10-09)

• Changesets:
  • Revision 84230ad9 on 2009-08-20T12:02:08Z:

main/mkinitfs: upgrade to 2.0_rc3

fixes #115

• Revision 5318c56c on 2009-09-02T06:53:52Z:

main/linux-grsec: upgrade to 200908311711. fix for serial console

Fixes #115