John Rowe wrote:
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> 
> Thanks again for all the help and do I assume that
> SL_enable_serialconsole is normally a safe thing to have installed?

It normally is safe if you want things redirected out the console.  I do 
know that it has stumped many a service tech when they take a machine 
into their testing area's and can't get anything out on a monitor.
But usually, it should go out through the serial port and the console, 
as it says in the line

terminal --timeout=10 serial console

but I guess if the serial port is not playing nice, it might just be 
stopping

> Presumably it's just a quirk of this machine or is this common?

I'm hoping it's a quirk of the machine.  That rpm's been installed on 
many machine's.  I do have to admit that there are some machine's that 
don't act like the rest, but I hadn't known them to not boot at all.  I 
guess now I do.

Troy
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