* console on serial
@ 1998-12-17 12:24 Richard Hartensveld
1998-12-17 22:24 ` Mike Shaver
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From: Richard Hartensveld @ 1998-12-17 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Hi,
Is it possible to get a console on the serial port with the hardhat
package ?.
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?
Regards,
Richard Hartensveld
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* Re: console on serial
1998-12-17 12:24 console on serial Richard Hartensveld
@ 1998-12-17 22:24 ` Mike Shaver
1998-12-18 12:40 ` Richard Hartensveld
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike Shaver @ 1998-12-17 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Hartensveld; +Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
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
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* Re: console on serial
1998-12-17 22:24 ` Mike Shaver
@ 1998-12-18 12:40 ` Richard Hartensveld
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Hartensveld @ 1998-12-18 12:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Shaver; +Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Mike Shaver wrote:
> 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 made a ttyS0 on the nfs-root filesystem and linked /dev/console to it, i
no longer get the
message 'can't open console' but no message at all :). i made the ttyS0
device using mknod ttyS0 c 4 64.
I seem to be forgetting something, anyone who can fill me in here ?
Richard
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