[syslinux] console redirect

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jun 18 08:52:13 PDT 2008


Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Chris Williams <cwillia3 at cisco.com> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to get console redirect working with Ultimate Boot CD
>> which uses syslinux. My syslinux.cfg file looks like this:
>>  
>> SERIAL 0 
>> DISPLAY startup.msg 
>> PROMPT 1 
>> TIMEOUT 100 
>> DEFAULT main 
>> #ONTIMEOUT boot 
>> ONTIMEOUT main 
>> LABEL boot 
>>   KERNEL chain.c32 
>>   APPEND hd0 
>> LABEL main 
>>   KERNEL menu.c32 
>>   APPEND /menus/main.cfg text console=tty0 console=ttyS0 
> 
> First start up Linux and make sure your serial parameters are correct
> and you can use the serial port.  Then test with a minimal config
> containing a single SERIAL keyword only.

You may also want to set the baud rate somewhere...

	-hpa




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