Re: Lilo On The SErial Port

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>>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".
>
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