From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:33:53 -0500 From: Bill Fink To: LinuxPPC Developers Cc: Bill Fink Subject: Serial Console on XServe and yaboot??? Message-Id: <20030311223353.00f9a059.billfink@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I'd like to use the serial port on the XServe as a serial console. I enabled CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE in a 2.4.20-0.7b (YDL 2.3) kernel, set the OF input-device and output-device parameters to ttya, and booted with the kernel argument "console=ttyS0,38400". This actually works once the system starts booting. My problem is that I never get a chance to interact with yaboot and thus for example can't select a different Linux kernel to boot. Is there any way to accomplish this, for example by some suitable modification to the ofboot.b file in the boot partition? Or is this just not supported by the hardware? Thanks in advance for any help or pointers, or even for informing me that this is a hopeless quest. -Bill ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/