Talk:Installing Gentoo

Serial console and kernel parameters (to fix console hanging)

I had to do the following on my image to get the serial console to work:
echo "hvc0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 hvc0" >> /mnt/etc/inittab
echo hvc0 >> /mnt/etc/securetty

I also needed to add "console=hvc0 xencons=tty" to my list of kernel parameters:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/xvda1 console=hvc0 xencons=tty