Re: Serial Console

Jim Fridlund wrote:
> --- Chris Knadle <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>   Out of curiosity: what is generating the
>>requirement that the bootup text 
>>go to the serial port?
Having a lot of boxes and using a serial console
switch for administration. On servers I do not
use graphical GUIs (like X11), so serial lines
are cheaper and easy to handle.

> Hi. I was reading this thread and thought I'd
> share some info to this list. I worked on an
> embedded x86 board where we used Phoenix BIOS
> which did have serial support. One could
> configure it to output the BIOS on Com 1.
> Most PCs don't support this feature though
> and I don't think the OpenBrick does.
Seems to be missing in the OpenBrick...

> I do have my OpenBrick setup as a headless
> router/gateway where it uses Com 1 as its console.
> You can configure grub to use com 1 as your console.
> I have the following defined in my grub.conf:
Thanx for your complete settings, this makes
it much more easy for me: Saves me some reading
and replaces thinking by copy-n-paste. ;-)

Cheers,
Olaf

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