Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:36:42 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [...] >Yes. The _kernel_ logs to both consoles, but whatever opens /dev/console >connects to just _one_ console. I see. Well, that makes it perfectly clear. Thanks for filling me in! >> The problem seems to be related to kernel lo

Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Ralf G. R. Bergs: > Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my > setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include > > append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" > > in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to th

(mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-25 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:17:00 +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- >>console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. > >That shoul

Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ralf G. R. Bergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- >console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. That should work. The guy who wrote the serial console kernel stuff, also wrote sys

Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?

1999-04-24 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, I followed the instructions in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial- console.txt in order to control a Debian box from a serial terminal. However I had only partial success. There IS "some" output on the screen, but it's not nearly as much as appears on the VGA console, nor can I login