Linux MIPS Architecture development
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com>
To: Richard Hartensveld <richard@infopact.nl>
Cc: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" <linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: console on serial
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:24:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <367984B8.62A40F40@netscape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3678F801.C399874F@infopact.nl

Richard Hartensveld wrote:
> I'm trying to get linux installed on a challenge S, which has no video
> board, all goes pretty
> well until i get into userland and the kernel wants to open
> /dev/console, which i would
> like to be a terminal on the serial port, is this possible?

Yeah, that's how I boot my Indy when I need to capture early-on kernel
dumps.
Make sure that /dev/console is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.

I assume the prom is set correctly, because you're getting this far.

Mike

-- 
24926.91 21925.54

  reply	other threads:[~1998-12-17 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-17 12:24 console on serial Richard Hartensveld
1998-12-17 22:24 ` Mike Shaver [this message]
1998-12-18 12:40   ` Richard Hartensveld

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=367984B8.62A40F40@netscape.com \
    --to=shaver@netscape.com \
    --cc=linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com \
    --cc=richard@infopact.nl \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox