[olug] serial redirect
Kenton Brede
xyf at nixnotes.org
Wed Sep 10 16:58:24 UTC 2003
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 -
#############################################################
[slock:~]# reboot
Broadcast message from root (ttyS0) (Wed Sep 10 11:04:05 2003):
The system is going down for reboot NOW!
[slock:~]#
LILO 22.5.6.1 boot:
Loading Linux....................
BIOS data check successful
Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable slock ttyS0
slock login:
##############################################################
Here is my lilo.conf file -
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1
install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
prompt
default=Linux
# sends lilo prompt to serial port
serial=0,9600n8
imeout=100
restricted
password=whatever
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
append="console=ttyS0,9600n8"
I've checked my bios setting and don't see anything in there that would
help with this. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
kent
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