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Re: console for Linux



On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Yaron wrote:

> 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.

Is this a output only option, or would I be able to work with it, say, if
fsck fails ?

--Ariel

> 
> 			Bye,
> 
> 				-Yaron.
> 
> 

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