I can't find CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE in menuconfig. Under which submenu is it
in?

--Lou


On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:03, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 06:48, Louis Garcia wrote:
> > How do you get the bootup messages on the console? I think you have to
> > append console=? in grub.conf.
> 
> Well, I think that's only necessary when you have enabled support for
> console on both a VT and a serial interface. In that case, I remember
> the serial interface takes higher priority than normal VT.
> 
> So, if you compile with CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y and
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y, then you'll need to append
> 
>    console=tty0
> 
> to your kernel cmdline in order to get dmesg messages onto the screen
> instead of the serial interface.
> 
> You can also tell the kernel to display messages on various devices
> simultaneously:
> 
>    console=ttyS1,9600 console=tty0
> 
> will make kernel messages to be sent to both ttyS1 and tty0, so you can
> see them either via a serial connection, or on the screen.
> 
> Well, I've never tried this setup (I'm running 2.5 on my laptop which
> does not have serial interfaces) and all this information has been
> extracted from the Documentation/ directory of 2.5, so maybe it doesn't
> work either :-)
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________
>         Felipe Alfaro Solana
>    Linux Registered User #287198
> http://counter.li.org
> 
> 



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