From: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Cc: Dong Liu <dliu@npiww.com>, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: serial console
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 15:16:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199804022316.PAA01989@fir.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980402233532.10932@uni-koblenz.de>
ralf@uni-koblenz.de writes:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 1998 at 03:06:21PM -0500, Dong Liu wrote:
>
> > Ok, I got a serial cable , connect it, type "nvram console d", now I
> > can boot irix from a serial terminal, but for linux, the message
> > didn't come out, maybe all the serial parameters are not set right.
>
> Linux doesn't accept the value ``dd'' for the console variable. If you
> try, Linux should complain about the setting and enter the interactive
> firmware mode again. Could you try setting console to either d1 or d2
> according to the serial line you're using?
For reduced user confusion, accepting "console=d" as an alias
for "console=d1" might reduce user confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-02 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-02 17:31 kernel panic Ulf Carlsson
1998-04-02 17:29 ` ralf
1998-04-02 18:55 ` Dong Liu
1998-04-02 18:47 ` ralf
1998-04-02 19:22 ` Dong Liu
1998-04-02 20:37 ` ralf
1998-04-02 21:10 ` Dong Liu
1998-04-02 20:06 ` serial console Dong Liu
1998-04-02 21:35 ` ralf
1998-04-02 23:16 ` William J. Earl [this message]
1998-04-02 23:53 ` Dong Liu
1998-04-03 0:47 ` ralf
1998-04-04 20:27 ` Oliver Frommel
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