[syslinux] pxelinux multiple serial port setting

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Mar 1 10:09:30 PST 2010


On 03/01/2010 05:29 AM, Kimitoshi Takahashi wrote:
> Now, recently we bought different computers whose BMC(Baseboard Management Controller) redirect COM3(ttyS2) to 
> SOL.
> We were able to see pxelinux menu with old machines but we can't see them with newer ones.
> We want to see pxelinux menu's outputs with both machines.
> 
> Is it possible to have pxelinux output both COM2 and COM3 simultaneously ?
> 
> Or, is it possible to have pxelinux behave like GRUB, which prompt something like "Press any key to proceed." and after receiving any input, output GRUB's menu only to the device which it received inputs?

Hi Takahasi-san,

It isn't currently supported, but it really wouldn't be all that hard to
do.  I will consider adding it in Syslinux 4.00.

	-hpa




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