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Re: console for Linux



On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote:

> It's very neat future (and I heard thats it'salready implemented at
> some 2.1 kernels, Vadik? I thing that was you who told me that...)

Yes, it is implemented in 2.1.something.

> When you boot BSDi at HUJI it looks like that, first the usual bios
> stuff, then the Boot.... line and.... nothing, everything else goes
> to serial port.

But if you interrupt boot process _from PC console_, the console
doesn't move to the serial port.

> We have some Catalyst managing the serial traffic
> around. As the result, we can boot, debug, single-user-mode the
> servers without actually going to the console. Every hosts has it's
> own <host>-serial extension which will point to it's console, end of
> story.

Vadik.