Re: grub and serial

[Gilboa Davara]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>  I am trying to enable serial console by editing GRUB boot loader.
>  What I want is to be able to view in the boot messages of a machine A
>  which is connected  with a serial cable to machine B. (I want to view
>  these messages on machine B)
>
>  I found this link:
>  http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-serial-console-howto/
>
>  Following this link I added these lines to /etc/grub/grub.conf:
>
>  serial --unit=1 --speed=19200
>  terminal --timeout=8 console serial
>
>  (I know that still I should add console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8 to
>  the kernel line in grub.conf)
>
>  When I rebooted the machine, it hangs.
>
>
>  I am well aware of that it deals with centos/rhel
>  Any ideas why?
>
>  Is there a different way to achieve it ? 
The console=tty console=ttySn,XXX per kernel is also required, as
grub's configuration only effects grub.
Don't forget to increase the grub timeout and comment out the "hidemenu"
line.

- Gilboa