Revert to just running /bin/bash on /dev/console for serial. We still start getty on tty2-6

ChangeLog

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation; 2008 Chris Gianelloni, Andrew Gaffney
 # Distributed under the GPL v2
 
+  24 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> netboot/linuxrc.x:
+  Revert to just running /bin/bash on /dev/console for serial. We still
+  start getty on tty2-6
+
   23 Dec 2008; Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> gen_cmdline.sh:
   Allow old 'initramfs' option instead of 'ramdisk' for compatability
 

netboot/linuxrc.x

@@ -307,8 +307,13 @@ LaunchShell() {
 		getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty${i} &
 	done
 
-	# We run the getty for tty1 in the foreground so our pid 1 doesn't end
+#	# We run the getty for tty1 in the foreground so our pid 1 doesn't end
-	getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty1
+#	getty -n -l /bin/ashlogin 38400 tty1
+
+	# We were running the above code, but that doesn't work well on serial. Until
+	# we can autodetect a serial console and start a getty there, we'll just run
+	# ash on /dev/console
+	/bin/ash
 }
 
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