[H-GEN] RH modules (long)

[Christopher Biggs]

Paul Gearon <gearon at computer.org> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> This explains much.  I only included a few lines from the 
> /var/log/messages file so I didn't give the complete picture.  In 
> fact init was sending out a VERY large stream of errors every 5 
> minutes 

In that case, it's probably what Martin said---an errant getty.

"5 minutes" is the magical time for which a misbehaving getty would be
disabled before being restarted.

> Is there any way I can do that through silo.conf?  

quite probably.   There's usually a way to pass kernel parameters in
all linux bootloaders.  

> > Hmmm, I wonder if /dev/null works...?
> 
> Yup.  I assume you are being funny here?  

Nah, I meant "I wonder if there's an explicit boot parameter to tell
the kernel there's no console device".   

cjb.

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