[olug] serial redirect

[Matthew G. Marsh]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Kenton Brede wrote:

> I've configured a serial port on one of my linux boxes to listen for a
> terminal.  I can log in fine.  All works well, except, I can't seem to
> redirect the kernel boot messages to the serial port.  From what I've
> read this is accomplished by adding append="console=ttyS0,9600n8" to
> lilo.conf.  Yes I ran lilo.  At any rate this is all I get when I reboot
> from the terminal -

Is your kernel configured to allow console on serial port? Many distros
modularize the serial port. Look in "Character devices" and make sure the
"Standard/generic (8250/16550 and compatible UARTs) serial support" is not
a module and that you have then also checked "Support for console on
serial port" as a suboption. These are required to be compiled in if you
want the kernel to be able to talk to the serial port during init.

OK?

[snip]

> kent
>
> --
> "I am always doing that which I can not do,
>    in order that I may learn how to do it." --Pablo Picasso

Nice quote!

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