[CRISIS] No i386 serial console (was Re: Headless Installation)

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Rainer Clasen <bj@zuto.de> writes:

> It seems the default kernel has no support for serial console compiled in.
> compile your own with CONFIG_SERIAL=y, CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y, copy the
> bzImage to your install disk (this used to work in slink) and continue.
> since you're at it, you might want to modify floppy's syslinux.cfg to
> append console=ttyS0

AAAARGGGGHHH!

I *knew* there weren't enought people testing serial console!

Is it possible to add these two options to all i386 kernels?  Is there
room?

If not, is there room to add it on the -compact and -idepci kernels?

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