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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
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- Subject: Re: How can I remove virtual consoles?
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- Message-ID: <93012112165@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:33:54 CST
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- I4AQ (I4AQ@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA) wrote:
- : I leafed through that Coherent book (which might use a more complete
- : index...) and found no information on how to remove virtual consoles.
- : How can I patch my kernel to remove them? I want to the the
- : /dev/console device...
-
- The info is in the little book that came with the OS, not the
- full blown manual. The book on how to install Coherent. You need
- to run patch on the kernel and set it to no virtual consoles.
-
- WARNING: make a copy of the kernel instead of modifying the original,
- and you also need to edit /etc/ttys so that init knows to spawn
- a getty for the console instead of color0, color1, etc.
-
- To copy the kernel, go to "/" and do:
- cp coherent coh.test
-
- Then modify coh.test instead of coherent. To boot using coh.test,
- when you boot coherent at the bootstrap hit space and you'll get:
- ?
- type: coh.test and it will boot coh.test instead of coherent.
-
- If it works and you want coh.test to be the one booted automagically,
- go to "/" again, and do this:
- rm autoboot
- ln coh.test autoboot
-
- now when coherent boots it will boot the modified kernel, and the
- original kernel is still in "coherent" in case you need to switch back
- ever.
-
- I learned the hard way.
-
- The patching virtual stuff is in the booklet, so I won't go into it.
-
- -Louis
-
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