Re: Serial Console

Olaf Gellert <[email protected]> Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:01:14 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.hardware.openbrick.general
Organization	PRESECURE Consulting GmbH
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Chris Knadle wrote:
> Hey, Olaf.
> 
> 
>>I have a question concerning the OpenBrick (especially
>>the OpenBrick NG): Does the bios support a serial console?
> 
> 
>    Okay; this isn't something that's BIOS related: it's Linux kernel 
> related.

Sorry, it is. If I want to configure my box using a serial
console (meaning: I want to enter the bios setup), then this
happens before the box booted, so it is independent of the OS.

> To do what you want you need to enable "support for console on 
> serial port" which will then allow you to eventually hook up something like 
> a dumb terminal to your OpenBrick serial port.

Yes, if Linux starts up, then this will work. But it wont
work before booting the OS.

Hmmm... I know that DELL servers implement a serial
console. And the soekris boxes do as well...

Regards,
Olaf

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