Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:23:25 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: EFI Boot Stub Early Console |
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On 03/12/2012 03:18 PM, Shea Levy wrote: > On 3/12/12 6:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 03/12/2012 12:00 PM, Shea Levy wrote: >>> On 3/12/12 2:56 PM, Shea Levy wrote: >>>> console=tty0 >>> Sorry, that should have been console=ttyS0 >> Have you tried earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0? >> >> -hpa >> > > Just tried. Still nothing in the VirtualBox window, serial port showed > boot output up until "[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled, bootconsole > disabled", when the rest of the boot process happened in VirtualBox. >
That sounds like one would expect, no?
I don't think anyone has implemented an EFI earlyconsole yet, and you can't rely on EFI handing over the screen in a mode the kernel can handle with earlyconsole=vga, so there aren't really any other alternatives.
-hpa
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