On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:56 pm, you wrote: > David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 7. I am wondering if it is possible to install using a serial port for > > the console? > > If you provide kernel params accordingly, it should be possible. > At least with "stdio" additional param if drakx doesn't detect it > automatically (but it should).
Hi, just got around to trying install using serial port. It didn't work, here's what I did/had happen: adjusted syslinux.cfg: added serial 0 38400 added console=ttyS0,38400n8 stdio to the append line On boot from this floppy, syslinux provides boot prompt on serial port, press enter, and it loads the kernel and initrd, then goes quiet for a bit (no kernel startup messages), Then video console begins displaying usual stage 1 messages, stage 2 loads and begins displaying the simple text messages for stdio mode, but I get the error message: failed to open /dev/console: no such device. ls -l /dev/console shows that the /dev/console device is present and has the correct properties. Perhaps something missing in the boot kernel? I replace the vmlinuz file with the one from my workstation ( after making room) and the kernel messages started appearing on the serial port. Could not go any further since I did not have a regular kernel matching the network.rdz from any of the boot images that I have, so I suspect that if the stage 1 boot kernel was reconfigured to add the missing built in stuff for console booting that it would work. Thanks dave
