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Re: OT Kernel debug



A Dijous 28 Maig 2009, Maciek Kaliszewski va escriure:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:01:25AM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> >> A Dilluns 25 Maig 2009, Douglas A. Tutty va escriure:
> >>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst that shows how to set it up.  Grub will
> >>> start with something like "press a key to continue" so that it knows
> >>> whether you're at the serial console or the main (VGA) console, and
> >>> thend presents the usual menu.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot. Tomorrow I will find a serial cable .... I hope that the
> >> Poweredge server has serial console...
> >>
> >> But, if you have serial console, do you have vga?
> >
> > Sure, inittab still gives you a getty on the VGA.
> >
> > Grub can only use _either_ the serial or the VGA.
> >
> > The kernel will send messages to whatever console= commands you give it,
> > accepting input on the last console= given.  Thus, the serial-console
> > entry in menu.lst is console=tty console=ttyS1,38400n8.  You'll get
> > message on both.
> >
> > Another option for you if you have either a serial or paralell printer
> > (I don't know if it works for USB printers) is to use lp0 as a console
> > parameter, before console=tty, so that input is still from the VGA, but
> > messages are printed out directly.
> >
> > Doug.
>
> Hi,
>
> Solutions mentioned earlier are of course better , but I 've seen also
> photos of monitor screen (of course without flash :-)
>
:-)


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