From: Richard Hartensveld <richard@infopact.nl>
To: Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com>
Cc: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" <linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: console on serial
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 04:40:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <367A4D40.81E7F946@infopact.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 367984B8.62A40F40@netscape.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
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-18 12:38 UTC|newest]
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1998-12-17 12:24 console on serial Richard Hartensveld
1998-12-17 22:24 ` Mike Shaver
1998-12-18 12:40 ` Richard Hartensveld [this message]
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