> > Linux 2.2 does that for you. Look at the serial console
documentation -
> > it's in there (disclaimer: I haven't tested it myself).
>
> I don't believe it automatically does this for you. (The
documentation is
> a little vague.) You have to tell it to use the serial console.
You can
> tell it to use both VGA and serial, and it will gracefully fail on
> whatever isn't present. I guess this is equivalent, except that if
both
> are present it will use both.
Could I possibly patch LILO or LOADLIN or some other boot method of
Linux that would allow me to probe for a video
card and then pass the option to use a serial console in to the
program only if it can't find the video card?
If not, how hard would a manual patch to the kernel be?
Warren
