From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Einar Saltnes Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:40:47 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Serial console during linux boot Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. - Einar -- | Einar Saltnes | Scali AS | | mailto:eisa@scali.no | http://www.scali.com | | Phone:+47 22 62 89 50 | Scalable Linux Systems | | Fax :+47 22 62 89 51 | and Technology |