Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

[George Karaolides <george.karaolides@planitis.net>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Tom Gall wrote:

> Ummm you do realize you're not going to get any output from the system unless
> you have configured linux to use a serial console. (ie not just your kernel
> param but also  set your inittab)

Support for console on serial port is compiled into the kernel, as are the
appropriate bootargs.

Now what I'm trying to do is start the Debian woody installer.  Other
people (Rolf springs to mind) seem to have had success starting that from the
serial port, so I guess the inittab in the woody root ramdisk supports
this.

Thanks for all the other RS/6000 stuff you mentioned, it warrants a close
read.

Best regards,

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