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Re: booting to serial console



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0312240152410.4253-100000@vela.astro.psu.edu>,
Alexey Koptsevich  <kopts@astro.psu.edu> 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?

The kernel source comes with a document called
linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt . You need to follow the
directions in that document.

If you don't have an unpacked kernel source handy, look at for example
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/anno/Documentation/serial-console.txt@1.1

Mike.
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