5.3-BETA3 serial console

[Marian Hettwer]

Hej Jeremy,

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> This could possibly be an issue with your BIOS; "COM1" disabled in the
> BIOS could caus what you're seeing (especially the initial line, "sio0:
> configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0").
> 

D'oh! The serial port was disabled in BIOS ... bloody hell!
Shame on me, or the Linux-using Co-Worker of mine who used this Laptop 
before me ...

Well... sorry for the noise :-/

Now it's working (obviously) ...

However... come to think of it, a deadlock because there is no serial 
port doesn't sound good to me anyway. If there's no serial port, why not 
giving out an error message like "no sio[0,1] available, cannot start 
getty on ttyd0" ?

well, thanks anyway for pointing my head into the right direction.

best regards,
Marian