I'll try to explain. Excuse my English, it's not my native language. You have a floppy, right? The stock kernel does not have serial support built-in.
So, boot your floppy and do the following: (from http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/Documentation/LRP-Serial-HOWTO.txt) ------------------------------------------------------ CONFIGURING A SERIAL TERMINAL: 1) Get to the lrcfg menu by logging in or running 'lrcfg' 2) Edit the /etc/inittab file (lrcfg menu 2-3) 3) There is an example entry for a serial terminal already: #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 4) Simply uncomment this line to enable a console session on COM2. If you would rather use COM1, change the line to the following (note the two items that changed): T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 19200 vt100 ^^ ^^^^^ 5) Adjust the baud rate setting (19200) or terminal type (vt100) as necessary 6) Save the file <alt>-w and exit <alt>-q 7) Edit the /etc/securetty file (lrcfg menu 2-5) 8) Add ttyS0 (and/or ttyS1 as appropriate) to the list 9) Save the file <alt>-w and exit <alt>-q 10) Backup the /etc package (lrcfg menu b-2) ------------------------------------------------------ Reboot and check if it boots acordingly and test logging in from serial. If all goes ok, you can now mess around kernel boot messages. Go to Charles's site, http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/files/kernels/Dachstein-normal/ grab a compatible kernel, maybe 'linux-2.2.19-3-LEAF-normal.zImage.upx', rename it to linux, copy it to your floppy. Then edit syslinux.cfg, change/add the following comands in the append= line .... console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8 ..... This will enable a boot console on both Serial and VGA. It 'should' work. It did for me!!! -----Original Message----- From: david goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:39 AM To: 'Luis.F.Correia' Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] serial console... Umm... forgive my cluelessness, but how, exactly, do I "just copy it to the floppy"? alternately, /what/, exactly, do I copy to the floppy? I'd like to use the Dachstein-normal kernel, since it appears I have the -small kernel, but I have no idea whatsoever what to do. thanks -david -----Original Message----- From: Luis.F.Correia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:08 AM To: 'david goodrich'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Leaf-user] serial console... The DachStein kernels do not include serial console by default. At least the tiny ones. Check out Charles's website for more kernels. I'm sure you'll find one with serial support built-in. Just copy it to the floppy, provided that you have room. -----Original Message----- From: david goodrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Leaf-user] serial console... I followed the Serial-HOWTO on lrp.steinkuehler.net and I'm still not getting console messages on my dachstein 1.0.2 floppy setup... however, from the boot logs... Jan 29 00:39:40 firewall kernel: Warning: unable to open an initial console. Jan 29 00:39:40 firewall kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled\ So to me it looks like it's trying to find a console, /then/ initializing the serial port. I start the serial port with the serial.o module referenced in /etc/modules ... is there a way of doing it so it initializes earlier in the boot process? Also... The weblet-cgi failed to respond when my logs-ramdisk filled... is there any way of automatically purging the logs when it fills the ramdisk? Thanks. -david _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
