Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:35:34 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Booting on serial console |
| |
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote: > I've tried booting with a serial console. > Lilo works fine on serial console > Kernel messages appears on serial console once kernel is loaded, > > but I still get "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel" > on VGA monitor.
Answer CONFIG_VT=n. You're using a 2.1.x kernel, I hope?
> I wonder what will happen on the embedded PC I'm designing, on > which it will be no VGA but another device at 0xB0000-0xBFFFF
Linux is known to work on lots of weird machines without VGA hardware. Serial consoles are fun.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |