On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky <lis...@sonous.com> wrote:
> Hello,
[snip.
>
> This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial 
> port).  I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration 
> however - it appears on the "video" portion of the screen, and I'm able to 
> select a kernel that way, but the serial ouput gets nothing.  With Grub v.1 
> on other machines with serial redirect, I've been able to get the menu.  Is 
> there some option that I'm missing?

I was working on this a few weeks ago and AFAICK I needed the
following in grub.cfg to serial the grub menu over serial:

terminal_input serial
terminal_output serial

> Additionally, IIRC, the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX option above is conditional, 
> meaning that if I want video vs. serial redirection while booting, I need to 
> swap the two 'console' directives.  Given that there's only one way I can 
> specify the linux command line option, how would I go about doing this?

According to the following bug report (which is also where I saw an
example using the two above lines in grub.cfg), concurrent output is
coming:

http://old.nabble.com/-bug--28628--Concurrent-console-and-serial-access-td27186757.html


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