Viewing the console from X

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Robert Brockway wrote:

Ok, so I'm following up to myself :)

> Pass console=/dev/tty1 to the kernel at boot time.  The messages should all 
> then go to /dev/tty1 regardless of which virtual console is up.  I seem to 
> recall I did do this years ago.  Make sure a getty is running on /dev/tty1 
> :)

As yes you did want it under X.  You can see the serial console of other 
boxes under X using Minicom (or the console for the same box with a serial 
cable looped back I guess)[1].

xterm -C seemed to work for me.  Thanks to Harry Spencer for reminding of 
this switch to xterm.

[1] Yes, I'm not being serious.

Cheers,

Rob

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