Re: booting to serial console

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

The problem with serial console disppeared after I switched 2.2.20 ->
2.2.22, thanks!

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> Thank you for your help! The console now works, but it gets locked after
> the boot message about portmap and before the login prompt (or before
> single-user password prompt). I need to restart the client on the other
> end of the serial line (I use 'tip' under FreeBSD for that) to be able to
> login on the serial console.
>
> What could be the reason? Maybe speed get changed somewhere? I set 9600...
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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> > The kernel source comes with a document called
> > linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt . You need to follow the
> > directions in that document.
>
> > append "console=ttyS0,38400n8" or whatever speed you want as a
> > parameter to linux (either from lilo or in lilo.conf).
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