Hi! Rainer Clasen (bj): > Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu): > > I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation > > process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a > > vt100 terminal. > You need to modify root.bin! gunzip it, mount it via loop and replace > /dev/console. ohh - wait - /dev/console isn't used by the installation > program. maybe you need to kludge around and make /dev/tty1 the same as > /dev/console. Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt for > details. I became curios and actually tried it. I added console=ttyS1,9600n8 to syslinux.cfg's APPEND lines and set DEFAULT to 1. Furthermore root.bin was modified with mknod c 5 1 /dev/console. I rdev'ed the kernel and booted the box from this floppy. E'voila - worked like a charme. I stopped at "partiton a hard disk" since there was no disk attached. Now I'm thinking about removing the floppy and booting of the net. :-) This is really kewl - I've expected more problems. Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
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