> So after 12+ years of using lilo on my server, I've decided that it might be > time to upgrade my boot loader. With lilo I'm using the standard serial > redirect since I'm running a headless box (more specifically it's a guest of > a VirtualBox host).
> With Grub2, I've been able to get the standard serial redirect working with > the following in my /etc/default/grub: > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" > GRUB_TERMINAL=serial > GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no > --stop=1" > This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial > port). I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration > however - it appears on the "video" portion of the screen, and I'm able to > select a kernel that way, but the serial ouput gets nothing. With Grub v.1 > on other machines with serial redirect, I've been able to get the menu. Is > there some option that I'm missing? > Additionally, IIRC, the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX option above is conditional, > meaning that if I want video vs. serial redirection while booting, I need to > swap the two 'console' directives. Given that there's only one way I can > specify the linux command line option, how would I go about doing this? Here's a WAG: Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS0,9600" and run update-grub and reboot to see if you have the serial output (and still have the console output). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
