Lilo to Talk?

[Stephen Dawes]

At the top of the lilo.conf file put the line:

serial=X,9600N8

where X is the tty port that you are connecting to.
Note the N must be in uppercase.
Lilo will then echo what is in your /boot/message to the desired tty as well
as to the screen.

Good luck!



Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Holmes, Steve
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:12 AM
> To: 'speakup at braille.uwo.ca'
> Subject: Lilo to Talk?
>
>
> Anyone know the parm to give to lilo or configuration parameter to give to
> lilo to make it write to the serial port (ttyS0)?  I'm trying to debug a
> situation where I cannot boot my machine with any lilo boots I create.  I
> can boot with a kernel image written directly to a floppy but no luck with
> any lilo boot images I create.  This is with slackware 7.1 and kernel
> version 2.2.18.  I used the lilo package taken from slackware 7.1 with no
> modifications.
>
> Any ideas?  At least the lilo options should hopefully be of some help in
> the mean time.
>
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