On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Apr 2002, at 10:36am, Cole Tuininga wrote: > > I definitely agree with Ben wrt this being a handy debugging tool. The > > reason I said the above is that (at least, in my experience) turning on > > the "support for console on serial port" turns off your ability to use > > it as a login console (which I got the impression the op wanted to do). > > Hmmmm. I am pretty sure I had both working when I was using it for > debugging. Unfortunately, that particular system (my laptop) has since been > wiped and redone with a different distro, so the configuration I used is > gone. :(
I'm using serial console as a backup to access my firewall (for whenever I really screw up the networking :-) During boot I can see and interact with the LILO prompt. After boot I get the login: prompt and can log in fine. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
