Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Magnus Ahltorp <> | Subject | Re: Console as terminal on serial port |
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> Ah, not as easy are you think. Getty runs AFTER the system is booted. > Thus, all boot time stuff from LILO until getty is not seen. > Basically, I would like to NOT put any video card in the system. The > motherboards I use permit this to happen (I think). I don't want to > find a video card and monitor each time I can't do something over a > serial port.
> Most workstations support booting up from a dumb term or a frame > buffer/graphics card. I would just like to do this with Linux on a PC.
Doesn't sound like a very difficult thing to implement. And with a LILO option like console=tty00, it wouldn't be hard to use. Maybe a tunable option?
/Magnus map@abc.se
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