[ale] tty1 vs tty2,3,4,etc

[Jim Kinney]

yeah, but X is not even installed on this system.

Hmm. Wondering if some "remnants" are lurking as there is a gdm binary but
it's not started (runlevel 3)

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 06/08/2010 10:34 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > what is special about tty1? In Fedora 12 I have turned on Magic SysRq.
> > This allows me to press alt-sysrq-k and slaughter everything running on
> > a tty. Works fine for tty2+ but causes a system panic and hard crash on
> > tty1.
> >
> > Is init hard bound to tty1?
>
> Interesting. Doesn't X run on tty1 in Fedora 12?
>
>
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> Brian Pitts
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