I've already done this, but what I want to do is to be able to type in
"linux 1" via the serial port. The serial terminal works great for
monitoring boot messages but I can't seem to *type in* any lilo bootprompt
arguments.
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> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Christian Reis wrote:
> >I don't really think this is possible; AFAIK the code to load the console
> >is only present in the kernel - it very possibly doesn't even fit in the
> >tiny space lilo lives. A workaround is editing lilo.conf and running lilo
> >before rebooting - not too bad, but not ideal. I don't really know what
> >I'm talking about here, however.
>
> Not quite, but there is a way to do it. Add the "serial=" directive to
> "/etc/lilo.conf". Its syntax is:
>
> serial=<port>,<speed><parity><bits>
> e.g.
> serial=2,2400N8 # ttyS2 2400-baud, no-parity, 8-bit-characters
>
> Remember to rerun lilo after making this change.
> >
