Re: Booting on serial console

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:35:34 +0100 (CET)

On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 christophe.leroy5@capway.com wrote:
> I've tried booting with a serial console.
> Lilo works fine on serial console
> Kernel messages appears on serial console once kernel is loaded,
>
> but I still get "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel"
> on VGA monitor.

Answer CONFIG_VT=n. You're using a 2.1.x kernel, I hope?

> I wonder what will happen on the embedded PC I'm designing, on
> which it will be no VGA but another device at 0xB0000-0xBFFFF

Linux is known to work on lots of weird machines without VGA hardware. Serial
consoles are fun.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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