Re: [PLUG] Linux Serial console

[Eric Hidle <junkmail@ie-ap.org>]

I know my Tyan board supports a serial console... and I've used it 
before when I've not been able to get network access to it. It's 
definitely a handy thing to have, although I have the console connected 
to a serial port on my router box and not a terminal. The nice thing 
about motherboard console redirection is that it does not depend upon 
the linux kernel actually running - and you can vulcan-pinch the box 
remotely if your terminal software supports sending the key sequence 
over the serial port.

But, to answer your question, it's very easy to accomplish. And, in 
fact, I believe you can now specify your kernel parameters in menuconfig 
for doing a serial console using the kernel - if your motherboard 
doesn't support redirection.
E

Andrew Libby wrote:
> The topic of sparc keyboard vs serial console got me to thinking about
> Linux serial consoles.  What's the preferred approach to do this?  I'd
> like to
> have a serial console available on several linux machines, is this an easy
> thing to accomplish?  Ideally we'd even have bios access (is this possible).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andy
>
>   
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