>>What that does it tell 'lilo' that when your system boots, it's >>going to tell the kernel that serial=1,9600. > >No, that's not what it does. It tells LILO to write its boot prompt to the >specified serial port, and to read the user's response to that prompt from that >serial port. N.B.: The boot prompt is also still written to the console, and >the response is also still read from the console. Er, yeah, I was thinking append...don't mind me.. > >If you have compiled serial console support into the kernel, and if you wish to >tell the kernel which serial port to use for the system console, then specify >the console= kernel boot option. You can do this via the "append" LILO >directive. For example, you can add a line like: > > append='console=ttyS0,9600n8' > >to the appropriate "image" section of "/etc/lilo.conf". > >For complete details on serial console support, read the file >"/usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt". > >-- >Dave Mielke | 856 Grenon Avenue | I believe that the Bible is the >Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me >EMail: dave@xxxxxxxxx | Canada K2B 6G3 | if you're concerned about Hell. > > >-- > To unsubscribe: mail blinux-develop-request@xxxxxxxxxx with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject. >
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