Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-27 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
The problem with serial console disppeared after I switched 2.2.20 -> 2.2.22, thanks! > > Thank you for your help! The console now works, but it gets locked after > the boot message about portmap and before the login prompt (or before > single-user password prompt). I need to restart the client o

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-27 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Thank you for your help! The console now works, but it gets locked after the boot message about portmap and before the login prompt (or before single-user password prompt). I need to restart the client on the other end of the serial line (I use 'tip' under FreeBSD for that) to be able to login on

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexey Koptsevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > >I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The >kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then >switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is th

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
David, > Yes it works for me. I am confused as to why it doesn't for you. Did > you remember to run /sbin/lilo after changing lilo.conf ? You might Sure > also try entering video=vga16:off at the boot prompt after the name of I do not have any boot prompt on the serial console, I have only

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread David Sanders
On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:37 pm, you wrote: > David, > > Nothing has changed. I still have garbage on the serial console at > boot time, and then get login prompt only. > > Does it work for you? Yes it works for me. I am confused as to why it doesn't for you. Did you remember to run /sbin

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 25 December 2003 02:53, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The > kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then > switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is the penguin > ima

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread Dan Lenski
You want something like this in your lilo.conf stanza: image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only append="video=vga16:off" Dan On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 04:20, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > David, > > Where should I put it, to lilo.conf? The respond is > > Unrecognized token "v

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
David, Nothing has changed. I still have garbage on the serial console at boot time, and then get login prompt only. Does it work for you? Thanks, Alex On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 December 2003 04:20 am, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > David, > > > > Where should

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread David Sanders
On Thursday 25 December 2003 04:20 am, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > David, > > Where should I put it, to lilo.conf? The respond is Oh, sorry, in lilo.conf: append="video=vga16:off" -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-25 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
David, Where should I put it, to lilo.conf? The respond is Unrecognized token "video" at or above line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf Thanks, Alex On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, David Sanders wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 09:53 pm, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to figure

Re: booting to serial console

2003-12-24 Thread David Sanders
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 09:53 pm, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The > kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and > then switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is > the penguin

booting to serial console

2003-12-24 Thread Alexey Koptsevich
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and then switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is the penguin image which appears during the boot process. I have looked through boot ma