Console and serial

[Adil Kodian]

> 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.


one potential gotcha is that you must not select the 'auto' on your console
client baud rate when you use it to view boot messages- i have had a bit of
a problem with that working out of the box on most machines.

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