From: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring•com>
To: LinuxPPC Developers <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Cc: Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring•com>
Subject: Serial Console on XServe and yaboot???
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:33:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030311223353.00f9a059.billfink@mindspring.com> (raw)
I'd like to use the serial port on the XServe as a serial console.
I enabled CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE in a 2.4.20-0.7b (YDL 2.3) kernel,
set the OF input-device and output-device parameters to ttya, and
booted with the kernel argument "console=ttyS0,38400".
This actually works once the system starts booting. My problem
is that I never get a chance to interact with yaboot and thus for
example can't select a different Linux kernel to boot. Is there
any way to accomplish this, for example by some suitable modification
to the ofboot.b file in the boot partition? Or is this just not
supported by the hardware?
Thanks in advance for any help or pointers, or even for informing
me that this is a hopeless quest.
-Bill
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next reply other threads:[~2003-03-12 3:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 3:33 Bill Fink [this message]
2003-03-12 7:46 ` Serial Console on XServe and yaboot??? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-12 8:51 ` Brad Boyer
2003-03-12 10:44 ` Serial Console on XServ " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-12 13:19 ` Serial Console on XServe " Bill Fink
2003-03-12 13:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-03-14 3:17 ` Bill Fink
2003-03-12 8:38 ` Ethan Benson
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2003-03-14 3:29 Bill Fink
2003-03-14 7:24 ` Ethan Benson
2003-03-14 16:27 ` Bill Fink
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