On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Hanno Böck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As modern computers don't have serial ports any more (and today I had to
notice that this is also true for servers), I was looking if it's possible to
have a serial console over usb.
Yes. No. No.
Yes, it is true, PCs
At 11 Apr 2002 19:39:01 -0400,
Jeremy Katz wrote:
But I don't remember seeing it the time I tried to reproduce it either,
and the only patches we have had which affect serial consoles at all are
all in 0.91. I'll have to dig out a serial cable around here and try to
take a look later.
I'd
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
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
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
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
; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Serial console
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
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
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
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
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.
With friendly regards
Christoph P.
Svein E. Seldal wrote:
Hi all,
I have a server, Celeron 266 running RedHat 7.2. The
terminal
- Command: terminal [`--dumb'] [`--timeout=secs'] [`console']
[`serial']
Select a terminal for user interaction. The terminal is assumed to
be VT100-compatible unless `--dumb' is specified. If both
`console' and `serial' are specified, then GRUB will
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:46:44AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote:
- Command: terminal [`--dumb'] [`--timeout=secs'] [`console']
[`serial']
hmm, strange i haven't seen the timeout parameter before...
anyway, rtfm always helps ;)
thanks :)
but anyway:
i think it would be better to
From: Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: serial console support
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:30:40 + (GMT)
A command line is best. If menus are required, you can simply ask for
the appropriate item number or name to be entered.
Okay.
You can assume CR, LF and BS. Don't assume
(Apologies for breaking threading; I noticed this message on the
mailing list archive, and don't have the message-ID.)
Okuji Yoshinori wrote:
I'm now thinking of adding serial console support, because there are
some requests for it. But I'm not familiar with serial console very
much, so
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