RedHat6.1 and booting up with Syslinux

[Victor Tsaran]

Here is the exact fragment of the conversation as it appeared on one
of the RedHat's lists.
Regards,
Vic

| ||   o From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at transmeta.com>                            ||
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| ||"Edward S. Marshall" wrote:                                                ||
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| ||> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote:                               ||
| ||> > LILO certainly *can* be operated via the serial port (as can SYSLINUX),||
| ||> > but it must be enabled in /etc/lilo.conf (or syslinux.cfg).            ||
| ||>                                                                          ||
| ||> Right; as I pointed out in my previous message to the list, I've enabled ||
| ||> it in /etc/lilo.conf as so:                                              ||
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| ||> serial=1,9600n8                                                          ||
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| ||> This is the same config I'm using for the kernel:                        ||
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| ||> append="console=ttyS1"                                                   ||
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| ||> However, LILO simply refuses to talk to the serial port. Does the fact   ||
| ||> that a video card exists in the system somehow override this setting (the||
| ||> LILO documentation makes no mention of it that I saw, but perhaps I      ||
| ||> overlooked it)?                                                          ||
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| ||No, but I suspect you put serial= in the wrong place (it needs to be in    ||
| ||the top section.)                                                          ||
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| ||        -hpa                                                               ||