Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Lev Lvovsky wrote:[snip] > Thanks, I'll give this a shot tonight, if it works, I'm assuming that this is > an upstream patch to the update-grub script? Sorry for wasting your time. I've retested my original setup both over a serial cable to a single-board comput

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-05 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Andrew, On Feb 5, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote: >> Hello, > [snip. >> >> This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial >> port). I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration >>

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > Hello, [snip. > > This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial > port).  I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration > however - it appears on the "video" portion of the screen, and I'm able t

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Tom H
>>> I'm not at the machine right now (don't have access to see how the video >>> looks), but this should only change the operation of the booting of the >>> kernel, rather than the availability of the Grub menu.  On machines which >>> use grub1, I have the following: >> It was just a WAG... >

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Matt, On Feb 4, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > Note the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line, it includes console=ttyS0,9600. > > Perhaps it is time to file a bug report against grub-pc? After your explaining how to do this privately, I dug through the existing bug reports, and found this: h

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hey Tom, On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Tom H wrote: >> I'm not at the machine right now (don't have access to see how the video >> looks), but this should only change the operation of the booting of the >> kernel, rather than the availability of the Grub menu. On machines which >> use grub1, I h

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Tom H
>> Here's a WAG: >> Change >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" >> to >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0,9600" >> and run >> update-grub >> and reboot to see if you have the serial output (and still have the >> console output). > Here is mine and I have the same problem as th

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Tom H
>> Here's a WAG: >> >> Change >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" >> to >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0,9600" >> and run >> update-grub >> and reboot to see if you have the serial output (and still have the >> console output). > I'm not at the machine right now (don't have

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hi Tom, On Feb 4, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Tom H wrote: > Here's a WAG: > > Change > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" > to > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0,9600" > and run > update-grub > and reboot to see if you have the serial output (and still have the > console output). I'm

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:14 -0500, Tom H wrote: > > So after 12+ years of using lilo on my server, I've decided that it might > > be time to upgrade my boot loader. With lilo I'm using the standard serial > > redirect since I'm running a headless box (more specifically it's a guest > > of a Vir

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Tom H
> So after 12+ years of using lilo on my server, I've decided that it might be > time to upgrade my boot loader.  With lilo I'm using the standard serial > redirect since I'm running a headless box (more specifically it's a guest of > a VirtualBox host). > With Grub2, I've been able to get the

grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-04 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, So after 12+ years of using lilo on my server, I've decided that it might be time to upgrade my boot loader. With lilo I'm using the standard serial redirect since I'm running a headless box (more specifically it's a guest of a VirtualBox host). With Grub2, I've been able to get the st