On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:20:23PM +0200, Hans Beckérus wrote: > Sure, dmesg will show me the details, but I would really like to have > it in real-time ;) Actually when I set console=ttyUSB0,115200 all I > get is the prompt :( Nothing comes out from the boot, and it does not > seem to act as a real console either since any thing that usually pops > up there are only showing in dmesg now. Do I need to configure the > kernel in some specific way to support USB console mode? You do have: CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE enabled, right? USB starts as one of the last things in the kernel boot process, so the best you can ever get is a summary of what happened during the boot, not the kernel boot messages as they happen because they happen before the USB device is initialized. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html