On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:00:26AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> It is customary to use kernel command lines like :
>
> console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0
>
> to get an echo of the kernel messages or whatever on the serial
> console. This seems to be even automatically activated on powerpc prep
> kernels.
>
> The current way for detecting a serial console is to grep for
> "console=ttyS" on the /proc/cmdline, which naturally fails in this
> setup, and resulted on an impossibility to chose a keyboard on my prep
> motorola powerstack install. fjp tells me that this mechanism is used
> in various (at least 4) places in the whole of debian installer, which
> is why i fill a generic bug, and not a bug against kbd-chooser.
^^^^ (s/fill/file/)
Perhaps we should look for TERM_TYPE=serial, which rootskel sets.
Failing that, a simple for loop would suffice to get the last console=
parameter, and a case statement would suffice to look for ttyS*.
lastconsole=
for param in $parameters; do
case $param in
console=*)
lastconsole="${param#console=}"
;;
esac
done
case $lastconsole in
ttyS*)
# do serial stuff
;;
esac
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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