Hello Bill -- Thank you for your reply!
I have tried the `console' append line and only get kernel messages on
the screen, and no install-based stuff. This has always been the case
when I have used the `console' line before. Is this the normal behavior
for `console'?
Thank You,
Ivan.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Ivan Fetch wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I posted a message to this affect late yesterday, and am reposting now
> > due to the lack of information I have found thus far searching the Redhat
> > web site and documentation:
> >
> > In-Short, I would like to install Redhat 6.1 over the serial port instead
> > of using the conventional console. I believe that a boot directive such
> > as "linux serial" is what one would use for this (I have only found
> > documentation as such for a version of redhat other than Intel) but "linux
> > serial" is not working. Does anyone have any experience / background on
> > this - If so I would realy appreciate a reply.
> > Thank You, Ivan Fetch.
>
> I'm not sure if the redhat kernel has this compiled in for the install
> disk, but what you want to pass to the kernel is:
>
> <kernel> console=ttyS0,9600n8
>
> which says the console is /dev/ttyS0 which is 9600 baud, 8 bit with no
> parity.
>
> Bill Carlson
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