Here is the exact fragment of the conversation as it appeared on one of the RedHat's lists. Regards, Vic | || o From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at transmeta.com> || | ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| | || || | ||"Edward S. Marshall" wrote: || | ||> || | ||> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: || | ||> > LILO certainly *can* be operated via the serial port (as can SYSLINUX),|| | ||> > but it must be enabled in /etc/lilo.conf (or syslinux.cfg). || | ||> || | ||> Right; as I pointed out in my previous message to the list, I've enabled || | ||> it in /etc/lilo.conf as so: || | ||> || | ||> serial=1,9600n8 || | ||> || | ||> This is the same config I'm using for the kernel: || | ||> || | ||> append="console=ttyS1" || | ||> || | ||> However, LILO simply refuses to talk to the serial port. Does the fact || | ||> that a video card exists in the system somehow override this setting (the|| | ||> LILO documentation makes no mention of it that I saw, but perhaps I || | ||> overlooked it)? || | ||> || | || || | ||No, but I suspect you put serial= in the wrong place (it needs to be in || | ||the top section.) || | || || | || -hpa ||
