"Derek D. Martin" wrote: > > At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: > > > > How about for Grub? > > Not sure about making grub work on the serial console, but the > arguments to the append keyword above should simply be appended to the > end of the kernel line in /etc/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/grub.conf, to > which /etc/grub.conf is a symlink).
'info grub' says it supports this just dandy. However, my experience over the past two hours suggests that it isn't all there yet. Here are the lines from my grub.conf: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=5 serial console What happens is that the graphical menu shows up on the VGA monitor for ten seconds (from 'timeout' above), and then both the serial and VGA say 'Press any key' five times (from '--timeout'). After that the serial line goes dead until mgetty is run on it, and all the kernel output goes to the VGA screen. After boot completes, both have login prompts. The grub serial docco says that the grub terminal should become either the one in which a key is pressed, or the first one on the 'terminal' line. But no matter on which screen I press a key, the behaviour is the same as above -- even though grub recognises a keypress as short-circuiting the timeout on both screens. Magic SysRq is working on the VGA, but <Break>{key} isn't doing likewise on the serial line. It seems quite obvious that grub isn't making the serial line the console as documented. Any ideas? TIA, btw, and for the good info so far.. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************