Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Installing linux via serial port | Date | 25 Aug 1999 16:32:03 +0200 |
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In article <cistron.Pine.BSF.4.10.9908250955030.42373-100000@pawn.primelocation.net>, Chris D. Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> wrote: >On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Peter Liniker wrote: >> >Ahhh, I stand corrected. It *would* be nice to see this as a more >> >visible option for installation for those of us who do not tend to have >> >video cards/monitors on their servers. >> >> so how is this option enabled? >> >According to linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt, simple specify: > 'console=device,options' >(device=ttySx, options may include serial port speed, etc.) >e.g.: 'console=ttyS1,9600' > -or- > 'console=ttyS1,9600 console=tty0' to use either serial or the >video card.
If you read some more you will also see the following:
If no console device is specified, the first device found capable of acting as a system console will be used. At this time, the system first looks for a VGA card and then for a serial port. So if you don't have a VGA card in your system the first serial port will automatically become the console.
So simply pull out the VGA card and connect a terminal @ 9600 baud to the first serial port.
However, I don't know if the installation process uses /dev/console (and if it indeed is the new c 5 1 device), /dev/tty0 or /dev/tty1 ...
Also, /dev/console will never be a controlling tty, so you need to open the actual console device i.e. /dev/tty0 or /dev/ttyS0.
Mike. -- ... somehow I have a feeling the hurting hasn't even begun yet -- Bill, "The Terrible Thunderlizards"
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