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David Golden wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:00, Marian Hettwer wrote: > > Don't have a Dell 1650 specifically, but most pre-boot "console redirection" > I've seen on PCs is basically screen-scraping the VGA text buffer. When you > are running Debian linux, is login via a getty on [linux] ttyS0 once that > system has booted, or is the system perhaps still actually screen-scraping > VGA text, so logging in on the serial port is actually via a getty on [linux] > tty1 ? Actually, I suspect the latter, because usually > you have to edit the inittab post-install to enable a getty on ttyS0... > Nay. If I do a pxeboot of Linux, I use the CONSOLE=ttyS0,9600n81 as a Kernel Parameter and do get serial console output. getty is afterwards started on ttyS0 So it's from BIOS to full boot always ttyS0 in Linux... However, > On our PC systems with redirection, there is a BIOS setting for when the > redirection cuts out, something like: > always > pre-boot > shared > disabled I'll check that... maybe something is interfering. regards, Marian iD8DBQFE9ZJNgAq87Uq5FMsRAiQSAJ45GeI2owiWCSDtCDcHMfwICibbBQCgyNwT i4auwGJpcQ1BVXOi/PvY+KQ= =P+xM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
