knoppix talking boot prompt

[Igor Gueths]

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Hmm. So Syslinux can send data to /dev/ttyS0 even before the kernel 
starts?
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:56:20PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Syslinux has an option that lets you tell it to send its output to a
> serial port, in addition to sending it to a screen. Check out the
> syslinux docs for more details.
> 
> Greg
> P.S., this is available in lilo as well, so I don't see what all the
> fuss is about.
> 
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> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:56:34PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all. Not sure if anyone was aware of this, however I became aware 
> > through a friend of mine that Knoppix's boot prompt actually talks. I 
> > heard his Dectalk say something like ":/boot" and before that a Syslinux 
> > version number. Does anyone know how something like this can be 
> > accomplished/was accomplished? Bc before that version of Knoppix, I 
> > thought that a talking boot prompt was out of the question. Does anyone 
> > know if possibly there was a microkernel running in a ramdisk that then 
> > executed Syslinux? Thanks!
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