Re: Colo 1.14 Boot Problems / NFS 'udp: no matching socket' fix

[Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 07:39:41PM -0000, Nick Bartle wrote:
> 
> Edit /boot/default.colo so the line that sets up the root partition looks
> like this:
> 
> execute root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0,115200
> 
> where 115200 is the baud rate that you want to use, 115200 is pretty much
> the default.
> 

As of CoLo 1.14 there is a better way to achieve this :-

	var kconsole ''
	-var kconsole console=ttyS0,{console-speed}

	exec root=/dev/hda2 {kconsole}

This will "do the right thing" and only pass the console=... to the
kernel if the serial port is enabled in the boot loader.

P.