On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Christian Reis wrote:
>I don't really think this is possible; AFAIK the code to load the console
>is only present in the kernel - it very possibly doesn't even fit in the
>tiny space lilo lives. A workaround is editing lilo.conf and running lilo
>before rebooting - not too bad, but not ideal. I don't really know what
>I'm talking about here, however.

Not quite, but there is a way to do it. Add the "serial=" directive to
"/etc/lilo.conf". Its syntax is:

    serial=<port>,<speed><parity><bits>
e.g.
    serial=2,2400N8 # ttyS2 2400-baud, no-parity, 8-bit-characters

Remember to rerun lilo after making this change.

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