serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
I am using redhat 7.1 (with a newer kernel) on an x86-pc. Installed grub in linux partition /boot/grub/*. The menu.lst is also in the same directory. I was able to boot using this config. This machine does not have a console. It has one serial port ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:44, Pragnesh Sampat wrote: This machine does not have a console. It has one serial port ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another x86 linux box with a serial cable. I was passing console=XXX options to lilo which I did with GRUB and I am at least where I was with the

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
grub serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 Error 30: Invalid argument From the grub shell, you need to use something like grub serial --unit=/dev/ttyS0 --speed=9600 grub terminal serial Segmentation fault (core dumped) This segfault has been fixed in CVS. I got the CVS stuff and built

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello ! For the thig you want to do, you have to add the two lines to your `menu.lst' file: serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=0 serial The the menu starts in the serial mode with the menu, and if you enter 'c', then also the command interpreter are running serial.

Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

2001-11-12 Thread Pragnesh Sampat
For the thig you want to do, you have to add the two lines to your `menu.lst' file: serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 terminal --timeout=0 serial Yes, thanks, it works nicely now. I missed putting these lines in the menu.lst ... -Pragnesh