Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:49:26 -0800 (PST) | From | Scott Laird <> | Subject | Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600 |
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On 12 Feb 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Just checked my own code, and SYSLINUX does indeed support 115200 (I > changed this to be a 32-bit register ages ago, apparently.) Still > doesn't answer the question "why"... all I think you do is increase > the risk for FIFO overrun and lost characters (flow control on a boot > loader console is vestigial at the best.)
It's simple -- we want the kernel to have its serial console running at 115200, and we don't want to have to change speeds to talk to the bootloader. Some boot processes, particularaly fsck, can be *REALLY* verbose on screwed up systems. I've seen systems take hours to run fsck, even on small filesystems, simply because they were blocking on a 9600 bps console.
Scott
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