On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:01:25AM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > A Dilluns 25 Maig 2009, Douglas A. Tutty va escriure: > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst that shows how to set it up. Grub will > > start with something like "press a key to continue" so that it knows > > whether you're at the serial console or the main (VGA) console, and > > thend presents the usual menu. > > Thanks a lot. Tomorrow I will find a serial cable .... I hope that the > Poweredge server has serial console... > > But, if you have serial console, do you have vga?
Sure, inittab still gives you a getty on the VGA. Grub can only use _either_ the serial or the VGA. The kernel will send messages to whatever console= commands you give it, accepting input on the last console= given. Thus, the serial-console entry in menu.lst is console=tty console=ttyS1,38400n8. You'll get message on both. Another option for you if you have either a serial or paralell printer (I don't know if it works for USB printers) is to use lp0 as a console parameter, before console=tty, so that input is still from the VGA, but messages are printed out directly. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
