Console and serial

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:07:44PM -0500, Martin Duclos wrote:
> > I am not very familiar with hot to setup a console with linux. I want to 
> > connnect one pc to a server through a serial cable with com1 so that I can 
> > see all console messages. I'm not even sure where to begin... Any help is 
> > greatly appreceated.
> 
> Seomthing like "console=ttyS0,38400" or whatever settings you like in
> your lilo append line or on the kernel line in grub should do it if the
> kernel has support for serial console enabled.  inittab should have an
> example entry for a matching serial getty if you want to also allow
> logins from the serial port.

For complete details:

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/index.html

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