Re: (mostly) SOLVED (was Re: Serial console w/ Debian: only partial output?
According to Ralf G. R. Bergs:
> Ok, now that I corrected /dev/console and started a getty on /dev/ttyS0 my
> setup is working almost as intended with one exception: If I include
>
> append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600"
>
> in my lilo.conf EVERYTHING that one would expect gets output to the serial
> console, BUT there's a lot of stuff missing on the VGA console. If I
That's right. That's how it is supposed to work.
> reverse the two "console" statements above, the output changes accordingly
> (everything appears on the VGA console, but only a subset appears on the
> serial console.)
Yes. The _kernel_ logs to both consoles, but whatever opens /dev/console
connects to just _one_ console.
> The problem seems to be related to kernel logging (klogd), since klogd
> doesn't log ALL messages to syslogd either (there are the SAME lines
> missing in /var/log/kern.log as in the cases described above.)
klogd only logs kernel messages, it doesn't log what is written
to /dev/console as those are not kernel messages.
Mike.
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