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Re: console for Linux



  Hi,

On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Ariel Biener wrote:

> I am not talking about a PROM monitor here. I am simply talking about boot
.
> loads immediately after the kernel was loaded. You didn't answer if
> such an option exists in Linux.

Yes we did. Use the Serial Consone option available with kernels 2.1.*.
Just give LILO the CONSOLE=serial option or something, and all the
messages go to the serial port you specified as /dev/console. There's a
README or something in the source tree.

			Bye,

				-Yaron.