Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:58:25AM +0000, Tim Cutts wrote: >> A second query - I don't have a keyboard and monitor attached to this >> machine - I'm looking at EFI through the management card's console port. >> What device does Linux call this when it boots, since obviously I need >> to supply a suitable console= parameter to elilo (I've tried installing >> red hat, and the following happens: >> >> >> fs0:\> elilo linux text console=/dev/ttyS0 > > D'oh - answered my own question. Just console=ttyS0...
Correct. The CD booklet that is included with the HP Enablement Kit for Linux CD that ships with newer HP Itanium 2 systems that are ordered for Linux use talks about setting up serial consoles. The "trick" is that if you have exactly one serial port enabled as a console path in the EFI boot manager, regardless of whether you also have a VGA path enabled or not, that serial port should show up as ttyS0 to the kernel. If you have more than one serial port enabled as a console path in the boot manager, the results are "undefined"... Bdale
