Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Danilo Godec
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Christoph Plattner wrote: I know what you are speaking about But there is a solution. You have to set `--timeout=0' (!) in the `terminal' line, and the system is usabe for serial line only. I use grub with serial line regulary and it has no problem with selecting

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Christoph Plattner
AFAIK the problem is, that the `terminal --timeout=5 serial' defaults after the timeout to the VGA/keyboard console. And exactly this is the problem. In the embedded world, the serial line is the default, the VGA/keyboard may be present as application addon ! Perhaps it is possible (I have to

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:27:41 +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote: AFAIK the problem is, that the `terminal --timeout=5 serial' defaults after the timeout to the VGA/keyboard console. Christoph, are you sure? have you ever seen such a behavior really? As the documentation says, it defaults to

GRUB GRUB GRUB ....

2002-04-11 Thread Kingsly John
Hi! I have been trying to get grub going on my machine for a long time now(since ver 0.5x) ... it works perfectly when I create a grub floppy. But when i install grub to the MBR I only get to see screenfuls of GRUB /dev/hda1 is my /boot and this is what my grub install session looks like...

help

2002-04-11 Thread Ing. Vladimir Melendez Garcia :.
hello list, a heve a redhat linux 7.2 with grub , a need to boot , my redhat in single mode , anybody can help me ? in the past i used lilo , but in this server a have grub , and i dont have any clue. thanks advanced Vladimir Melendez Garcia :. Hostmaster VIA NET.WORKS MEXICO Tel. Directo

Re: help

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:43:02PM -0600, Ing. Vladimir Melendez Garcia :. wrote: | hello list, a heve a redhat linux 7.2 with grub , a need to boot , my | redhat in single mode , anybody can help me ? At the boot menu press e. Arrow down to the 'kernel' line and press e again. Add the word

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Christoph Plattner
Yes, you are right, I have to apologize ! So, I have not really the semantic of this option. Let's try with the new status of knowledge: * GRUB only support 2 kinds of console: one is serial, the other is VGA/KBD. * While the timeout is running, all (= 2) consoles are polled if a user

RE: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Svein E. Seldal
Yes, what I have observed is that when you select the serial console by pressing a key before the timeout, the output is still sent to the VGA screen. I can navigate the menus or get the grub console _from_ the serial keyboard (the native keyboard is ignored), but the output is sent to the VGA

RE: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Ilguiz Latypov
Svein, I had no problems with navigating through the full screen menu over the serial port. The border lines are replaced with 7-bit approximations to allow for different terminal emulators. The GRUB source code was checked out off the CVS repository at

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Thu, 11 Apr 2002 23:53:08 +0200, Christoph Plattner wrote: Let's try with the new status of knowledge: * GRUB only support 2 kinds of console: one is serial, the other is VGA/KBD. That's not correct. Hercules is also supported. I think a kind of network console will be added, but this

Re: Serial console

2002-04-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:22:13AM +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: I think your problem is the same as this: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub@gnu.org/msg05054.html And, I bet that it is a bug in the Red Hat's version, as I haven't seen such a problem with the genuine GRUB. I've

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