Re: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Christoph Plattner <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 01:20:55 +0200

> First of all, I really want to have the possibility to activate
> serial console by a build switch (at ./configure), to have
> serial support, even if there is *no* `menu.lst' file. Of 
> course this switch should not be the only method, but an
> very important one.

  Maybe it would be useful to have a general way to embed GRUB
commands into stage2.

> If we think about target hardware, definitly no monitor 
> or keyboard is plugged on, and there often is none graphics
> adapter. In this case I want to have the possibility to
> use serial console. Although no user sits on the 'diagnose'
> terminal.

grub> terminal --timeout=0 serial

I have heard that Klaus actually used GRUB this way.

Okuji