Re: Rack mounted backend ideas
In article <[🔎] 20030113200205.GC17717@mail.felnet>,
Carel Fellinger <carel.fellinger@chello.nl> wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote:
>> I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options doesn't let me
>> interact with lilo, it just spits the information out to the serial port.
>
>This I find hard to believe, did you try to send a break? According to
>the lilo docs one needs to send a break instead of pressing shift to get
>lilo's attention.
We run all our machines with a serial port, and you can interact
with lilo just fine. Just make sure you set:
prompt
timeout=50
in /etc/lilo.conf. LILO will prompt for input and if you don't
enter anything within 5 seconds will continue booting.
Mike.
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