[arch-releng] November release

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 28.10.2012 22:29, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>> Good question... But I think this can be problematic on systems where
>>> you have connected some serial device. The same can be applied to
>>> ttyUSB0.
>>>
>> Ignore me, nobody complains about problems with syslinux that enabled
>> seria 0l by default.
>>
>> In that case, I have no problems in enabling by default.
>>
> mmm no!, on systems without serial port, serial-getty will block startup
> until some timeout is reached.
> 
> Try this starting it without serial ports, (ie on kvm -serial no)

Awww :(

There are practically no systems without a serial port, but this is a
showstopper. This will still work with console=ttyS0 (or console=hvc0).


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