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Re: Minor inittab/serial console question...



miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:

> In article <cistron.002101beffa7$c5ccfec0$9515fbd1@workstation>,
> Paul McHale <pmchale@doubleesolutions.com> wrote:
> >Can you boot Linux without a video card installed ?  I would have thought
> >the BIOS would have had a problem with that ...
> 
> Yup, works just fine. In fact, if you have the serial console support
> compiled in, the kernel will detect that you don't have a VGA console
> and automatically use /dev/ttyS0 as console.

And for the final touch, you can tell lilo about the serial port and
have it use that too.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930


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