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> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:54:07 -0500 > From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bug#183576: feature request > > Package: grub > Severity: wishlist > > This is more for upstream, but... > > I just discovered the "terminal" command in grub and its feature where > it can run the grub interface on either the serial console or the VGA > console, depending on where a key is hit first. What I think would be a > really cool extension to that would be to somehow get grub to pass that > info along to the Linux kernel via the console= parameter. So if the > user boots the system from the serial console, grub will pass > console=ttyS0 to the kernel, but if they boot from the vga console, > it'll pass console=vga. That would be so cool! > > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 Unix System Administrator Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.topic.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub