Re: booting to serial console

[Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.psu.edu>]

David,

Where should I put it, to lilo.conf? The respond is

Unrecognized token "video" at or above line 17 in file /etc/lilo.conf

Thanks,
Alex



On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, David Sanders wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 December 2003 09:53 pm, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to figure out how to boot Linux with serial console. The
> > kernel switches console to serial, outputs something unreadable and
> > then switches back to regular console. I guess that the problem is
> > the penguin image which appears during the boot process. I have
> > looked through boot mans (such as lilo.conf) but have not found any
> > way to disable it. How to make Linux boot in text only mode, without
> > fancy stuuf like images and colored text?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> Try video=vga16:off
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> David Sanders
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