On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 10:31, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> On 18 Apr 2002, at 8:29am, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> > You have to have serial support turned on on the server obviously, do not
> > turn on "support for console on serial port". Believe it or not, this is
> > not what you want.
>
> I disagree, here; seeing the kernel boot messages can be very useful, and
> having the support enabled but not used certainly won't hurt. One thing I
> have used this for is capturing a kernel panic that was occurring before init
> was spawned -- kernel serial console attached to another computer, and
> logging in Minicom. Sure beats transcribing a stack dump by hand!
I definitely agree with Ben wrt this being a handy debugging tool. The
reason I said the above is that (at least, in my experience) turning on
the "support for console on serial port" turns off your ability to use
it as a login console (which I got the impression the op wanted to do).
I can definitely see use for both modes.
--
"...it is important to realize that any lock can be picked
with a big enough hammer...."
-Sun System & Network Admin manual
Cole Tuininga
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Code Energy, Inc
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