From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA31648 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:25:33 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA38697 for linux-list; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:24:15 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA39485 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:24:13 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-47.netscape.com [205.217.237.47]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id OAA08953 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:24:12 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from tintin.mcom.com (tintin.mcom.com [205.217.233.42]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11536 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([205.217.243.67]) by tintin.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.0) with ESMTP id F44RK800.DX0; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:24:08 -0800 Message-ID: <367984B8.62A40F40@netscape.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:24:56 -0500 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Just Another Snake Cult X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.131 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Hartensveld CC: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" Subject: Re: console on serial References: <3678F801.C399874F@infopact.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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