Re: [Linux-ia64] Serial console during linux boot

[Einar Saltnes <eisa@scali.no>]

Stephane Eranian wrote:
> 
> You are missing the quotes around the console= command here also.
> Here is the valid command:
> 
> lilo -a -i initrd-2.4.0-0.43smp.img vmlinux-2.4.0-0.43smp root=/dev/sda2
> console=tty0 console="ttyS0,115200n8"
> 
> Hope this fixes it this time !
> 
Thanks!
The quotes made the trick!
Now I get the kernel messages on both the local monitor and on the
serial console at the same time! Great!

Mike Sklar wrote:
>
> last I checked with a 2.4.0-test10 kernel on ia64 I was using only
> ttyS0,115200 and getting kernel startup messages. No 'n8' included, but
> perhaps that doesn't matter at all. You might want to try checkout redhats
> 1/31/01 release, I've found it to be of much higher quality than the
> december beta which I quickly stopped using.
>
Thanks for the advice! I will download the newer "Fisher" distro and
check it out soon.

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Einar
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