On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:56 +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > Using Debian grub (unstable) where do I put the serial and terminal lines. > > The /boot/grub directory as installed by the current installer does not > seem to have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, nor a /etc/grub.conf. The > HOWTOs for serial console all suggest that this is the right place to put > the lines:- > > serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 > terminal --timeout=10 serial console > > (or whatever speed you want). > > I therefore created such a file (/boot/grub/grub.conf) but it had no > effect. > > Given the way that grub has been built for Debian unstable where > should these lines be? > > Thanks in advance > > David > >
some snippets from my /boot/grub/menu.lst: ## Setup the serial speed and unit serial -unit=0 -speed=9600 ##^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ # # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default optons below ## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs ## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specifiv kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600 ## ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ also you probably want to span a getty off of the serial port, do that through inittab, here is a snippet from my /etc/inittab # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 good luck, -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]