Re: console on serial

[Mike Shaver <shaver@netscape.com>]

Richard Hartensveld wrote:
> I'm trying to get linux installed on a challenge S, which has no video
> board, all goes pretty
> well until i get into userland and the kernel wants to open
> /dev/console, which i would
> like to be a terminal on the serial port, is this possible?

Yeah, that's how I boot my Indy when I need to capture early-on kernel
dumps.
Make sure that /dev/console is a symlink to /dev/ttyS0.

I assume the prom is set correctly, because you're getting this far.

Mike

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