Adrian, On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 8:01 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > On 5/8/19 7:20 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Not for the 11,2 type G5s. AFAIK there never was an adapter available > > that would allow access to the - existing - serial console port(s). > > You can always plug in a USB-RS232 converter and pass "console=ttyUSB0" > on the kernel command line. There is no need to use the built-in serial
I am curious about that comment. I do not understand how one would actually (physically) plug a USB-RS232 on a Mac Mini G4 ? Here is a picture of such device (at least how I interpret your comment): https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/15819/how-to-identify-the-usb-to-serial-wire-mismatched Where do you plug the red/black/white/green cable on your Mac ? > console as a terminal. If that still fails, you can always use netconsole > as I mentioned earlier, see [1], which works on any machine with networking > available. > > Adrian > > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netconsole > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
