Re: Console as terminal on serial port
Magnus Ahltorp (map@abc.se)
Sat, 22 Jun 1996 03:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)
> Ah, not as easy are you think. Getty runs AFTER the system is booted.
> Thus, all boot time stuff from LILO until getty is not seen.
> Basically, I would like to NOT put any video card in the system. The
> motherboards I use permit this to happen (I think). I don't want to
> find a video card and monitor each time I can't do something over a
> serial port.
> Most workstations support booting up from a dumb term or a frame
> buffer/graphics card. I would just like to do this with Linux on a PC.
Doesn't sound like a very difficult thing to implement. And with a LILO
option like console=tty00, it wouldn't be hard to use. Maybe a tunable
option?
/Magnus
map@abc.se