[syslinux] change SERIAL baudrate as-needed?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Apr 23 15:22:37 PDT 2015


On 04/23/2015 03:07 PM, Steve Rikli via Syslinux wrote:
> I've got a working PXELINUX 6.03 setup (which started as 3.08 way back in
> the old days :-) ), with this definition in the top-level default menu:
> 
> SERIAL 0 9600
> 
> This has been fine for years, but recently we've added a new pool of
> systems which we need to run at 115200 on their serial consoles.
> 
> I can't change the default 9600 (still lots of systems running and
> getting installed that way), so I'm wondering:  can I simply re-define
> 
> SERIAL 0 115200
> 
> in some sub-menu for the appropriate pool of systems?  I haven't simply
> tried it yet since I'll need to reconfigure terminal server ports, so
> I thought I'd check to see if anyone else does something like this
> before I try it.
> 

In a submenu, no, but you can use CONFIG to chain a different
configuration file which can have a different SERIAL directive.

	-hpa




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