Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 244

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10.3.3 Console Number Change and Serial
As of 2.6.10, serial devices on ia64 are named based on the order of ACPI and PCI
enumeration. The first device in the ACPI name space (if any) becomes /dev/ttyS0,
the second becomes /dev/ttyS1, etc., and PCI devices are named sequentially
starting after the ACPI devices.
On HP systems, you must reconfigure the EFI console then you can drop the console
parameter from the kernel boot command. As a work-around, you can try
console=ttyS1... as a boot parameter instead of console=ttyS0....
Find details in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ia64/serial.txt, which is part of the
kernel-source software package.
10.3.4 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL Environment
Do not set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable any longer. In the past,
it was possible to use it to enforce LinuxThreads support, which was dropped. If you
set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.x in SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, everything breaks
because ld.so looks for glibc and related tools in a path that does not exist.
10.3.5 Stricter tar Syntax
The tar usage syntax is stricter now. The tar options must come before the file or
directory specifications. Appending options, like --atime-preserve or
--numeric-owner, after the file or directory specification makes tar fail. Check
your backup scripts. Commands such as the following no longer work:
tar czf etc.tar.gz /etc --atime-preserve
See the tar info pages for more information.
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