From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from liliwang.net(DIALIN0487.UPENN.EDU[128.91.17.231]) (3149 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 01:37:19 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: (from vtsaran@localhost) by liliwang.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA01185; Tue, 16 May 2000 01:38:48 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: liliwang.net: vtsaran set sender to vtsaran@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu using -f From: Victor Tsaran MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14624.57064.919030.880319@liliwang.net> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 01:38:48 -0400 (EDT) To: speakup@speech.braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: RedHat6.1 and booting up with Syslinux X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under Emacs 20.6.1 List-Id: Here is the exact fragment of the conversation as it appeared on one of the RedHat's lists. Regards, Vic | || o From: "H. Peter Anvin" || | ||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|| | || || | ||"Edward S. Marshall" wrote: || | ||> || | ||> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, H. Peter Anvin wrote: || | ||> > LILO certainly *can* be operated via the serial port (as can SYSLINUX),|| | ||> > but it must be enabled in /etc/lilo.conf (or syslinux.cfg). || | ||> || | ||> Right; as I pointed out in my previous message to the list, I've enabled || | ||> it in /etc/lilo.conf as so: || | ||> || | ||> serial=1,9600n8 || | ||> || | ||> This is the same config I'm using for the kernel: || | ||> || | ||> append="console=ttyS1" || | ||> || | ||> However, LILO simply refuses to talk to the serial port. Does the fact || | ||> that a video card exists in the system somehow override this setting (the|| | ||> LILO documentation makes no mention of it that I saw, but perhaps I || | ||> overlooked it)? || | ||> || | || || | ||No, but I suspect you put serial= in the wrong place (it needs to be in || | ||the top section.) || | || || | || -hpa ||