Wow, that'd be odd to not support this, but kickstart install can work on servers too, but something must send the proper command to the boot loader when the disk boots, or does the floppy autodetect serial if I decide to not hook a keyboard to a machine I might run linux on? It makes no sense to hook extra stuff up, as then I need another synthesizer too, unless there's a a switch for isa devices from one machine to the other so when I want, I hit a switch, and the keyboard and double talk go on the other machine. At 04:36 AM 10/17/01 -0600, you wrote: >On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jennifer E Jobst wrote: > >> * The kernel included on the latest versions of the Red Hat >> and Debian boot and install disks *do not* support serial >> console. > >I believe this is probably in error. In a post yesterday I >quoted a RedHat installation manual section that specifically >says that it is supported, and I have also proved from the kernel >config files that it is compiled into the 2.2.19 _installation_ >kernels, as well as the others. One has only to run the >following command to find out if it is also suppported in the >2.4 kernels: > >grep -i 'console.*y' /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/configs/kernel-2.4.2-i386-BOOT.config >(this assumes you have the kernel-source package installed. I'd >do it, but it uses 90 meg, so I don't have it installed right now). > >I checked /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.19/serial-console.txt, and you >may have gotten the syntax wrong. The example in the file reads: > > console=ttyS1,9600 console=tty0 > >Note that that there is no "/dev/" before the ttySx parameter. >You could also check that /etc/ioctl.save does NOT exist on the >install image or floppy. I suppose there could also be baud rate >problems. > >If you cannot get this to work (unlikely), it should be reported >to RedHat as a bug, and a corrected install floppy image could be >posted by them: they have to support people who run headless >rackmount servers, and who have to install and maintain large >networks remotely, so such a mistake could be an expensive one. >Otherwise, you would want to instruct your HOWTO readers in the >finer points of the proper syntax so that they don't run into the >same problems. > >> Thus, unless the user chooses to recompile the installation >> kernel to include serial console support, installing over a > >Again, if there is an error, recompilation is probably not the >solution. They might need only to remove /etc/ioctl.save, or >something similar, as instructed in the serial-console.txt file >(but this would still be a problem for new users, so a >replacement floppy image should be provided instead, preferably >by RedHat, in their updates directories). > >> null modem cable is not an option if you are using an i386 >> architecture machine and RH or Debian. If you're using some >> other distro... good luck, and let me know if it works! > >LCR > >-- >L. C. Robinson >reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid > >People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and >instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find >out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see >"CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >