Re: Booting on serial console

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
21 Dec 1998 15:36:31 GMT

Followup to: <199812211507.QAA14636@wanadoo.fr>
By author: christophe.leroy5@capway.com
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I've tried booting with a serial console.
> Lilo works fine on serial console
> Kernel messages appears on serial console once kernel is loaded,
>
> but I still get "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel"
> on VGA monitor.
> I wonder what will happen on the embedded PC I'm designing, on
> which it will be no VGA but another device at 0xB0000-0xBFFFF
>

The same. However, noone in their sane mind will try to run anything
but *extensively* modified software on a machine for which
0xA0000-0xBFFFF is not either inert or a frame buffer.

In other words, on such an embedded system, you'd need to modify the
kernel. And the BIOS.

-hpa

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