RedHat6.1 and booting up with Syslinux
Victor Tsaran
vtsaran at nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
Tue May 16 01:38:48 EDT 2000
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: ||
| ||> ||
| ||> 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: ||
| ||> ||
| ||> serial=1,9600n8 ||
| ||> ||
| ||> This is the same config I'm using for the kernel: ||
| ||> ||
| ||> append="console=ttyS1" ||
| ||> ||
| ||> 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)? ||
| ||> ||
| || ||
| ||No, but I suspect you put serial= in the wrong place (it needs to be in ||
| ||the top section.) ||
| || ||
| || -hpa ||
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