Re: [Vacm-general] System boot messages stop at "Freeing used kernel memory"

[Rob L. <rl...@pl...>]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:32:19PM -0600, Nelson, Ben wrote:
> I've got sercon set up on all of my machines and when I am watching them
> boot from sercon_terminal, the boot messages always stop at "Freeing used
> kernel memory" and then I get a Login: prompt.  The machine I'm using has
> console redirection set up in the BIOS on serial port 2, 0258 IRQ 3 , I have
> the following lines in my /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> serial=0,19200n8
> append="console=ttyS1,19200n8 console=tty0"
> 
> I can see the entire post and get into the BIOS and everything from sercon,
> but if the machines ever need to have a manual fsck done on them during the
> boot process, I'll never see the message or be able to do anything about it.

if you can live w/o ever seeing the messages on the video console,
swap the order of console:
append="console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8"

It'd be very nice if i knew how to get init scripts to talk on vga
/and/ serial consoles 

==rob 

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