Re: booting to serial console
You want something like this in your lilo.conf stanza:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
append="video=vga16:off"
Dan
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 04:20, Alexey Koptsevich wrote:
> 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
> > --
> > David Sanders
> > debian@sandersweb.net
> >
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