On 2006/10/16 13:39, Ryan Corder wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 16:56 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > are you using bios console redirection? if so, try changing it so > > it only redirects the bios startup screens and _not_ the OS. > > the bios on my board forces it on...so I can't turn it off. I'm > guessing the getty in Linux (agetty on Gentoo) acts a little different > as it seems to take over once the machine has finished booting.
I haven't used agetty, but I've heard Linux is more willing to share with console redirection. I don't know why, though. I don't really understand why this is so hard for the big PC BIOS makers to get right, either. Soekris and pcengines managed it (and in a lot less code than the main BIOS vendors)...not to mention all the various non-x86 systems. > so I guess I'm just SOL? I don't suppose you have a COM2 available somewhere you could use for the OS? That would be the simplest option (even if it means connecting a cable to a motherboard header and hanging it out of the machine). (must be a standard port not USB or PCI to use with the OS console).
