Re: automatic reboots
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@drinkel.cistron.nl)
30 Dec 1996 13:39:39 +0100
In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961229191435.32642A-100000@northwest.com>,
Sean Utt <sean@northwest.com> wrote:
>Is there any possibility that a true serial boot at the "lilo" level is
>going to be available any time soon for linux on intel platforms? That
>would make this less of a problem for all us remote administrators. The
>ability to dial in and boot into single user mode would be helpful in
>itself, but the option of booting different kernels remotely, and
>interracting with the system during boot would be even more helpful.
This is already part of lilo. Just specify something like
serial=1,9600n8 (ttyS1, 9600 baud, no parity, 8bits)
in the general section of lilo.conf and you have the LILO prompt on both
the VGA console and the serial port.
Mike.
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