[olug] serial redirect

[Kenton Brede]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:35:42PM -0500, Matthew G. Marsh wrote:
> 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.
> 

I was headed in that direction:)  I found "support for console on serial
port" wasn't selected.  That should solve my problem.
Thanks,
Kent

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