On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:32 -0400 William Thompson <wt@electro-mechanical.com> wrote: > I am not on the list, keep me in CC. > > Is it possible to output to both the vga console and the serial > terminal as with older versions of grub? I thought I did this at one > time but am unable to do this now. At this time, the oldest grub > version I used is 1.96+20080724-16 > > For grub1 (not grub2) you can add the following lines to you menu.lst serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=10 serial console Add to kernel command line console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 And add ttyS0 line to inittab This setup favours serial over console. If you prefer to favour console switch tty0 and ttyS0,115200 parts of the kernel command line, and switch serial and console in the terminal line. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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