Re: serial console patch for 2.0.33

Brian Rogers (w006552@airmail.net)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 19:15:36 -0600


In my last message, the patch was mangled by my mail software. Below I
include the patch in uuencoded format. My apologies for the waste of
band-width and possibly your frustration.

At 06:31 PM 2/15/98 -0600, Brian Rogers wrote:
>The below patch to 2.0.33 will allow a Linux box with no video card to boot
>with /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) as the console. The files /dev/tty1 and
>/dev/console should be deleted then made symbolic links to /dev/ttyS0. The
>"serial=0,9600n8", "prompt", and "timeout=" options needs to be added to
>/etc/lilo.conf. Note that, in the kernel source, the baud rate is
>hard-coded to 9600 and the serial port to COM1 at address 0x3f8. (It was
>that way when I found it.) You'll probably want to disable the getty on
>tty1 and add a getty for ttyS0 at 9600 baud.
>
>/* Brian Rogers */

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