"Edward S. Marshall" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > LILO certainly *can* be operated via the serial port (as can SYSLINUX),
> > but it must be enabled in /etc/lilo.conf (or syslinux.cfg).
>
> Right; as I pointed out in my previous message to the list, I've enabled
> it in /etc/lilo.conf as so:
>
> serial=1,9600n8
>
> This is the same config I'm using for the kernel:
>
> append="console=ttyS1"
>
> However, LILO simply refuses to talk to the serial port. Does the fact
> that a video card exists in the system somehow override this setting (the
> LILO documentation makes no mention of it that I saw, but perhaps I
> overlooked it)?
>
No, but I suspect you put serial= in the wrong place (it needs to be in
the top section.)
-hpa
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