Re: "Scrolling Copyright" solved

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@alcatel.at>]

Does this mean, Etherboot supports or supported serial console ?
This is the thing I think it is very important. I also work on a
serial support for the boot loader GRUB. 

Copyright block or not .... is it possible to observer the
downloading process via serial console ?
I mean the messages, which ethernet i/f was found, io addresses, irq
the MAC address and the status of querying the server (bootp) and
of downloading the image(s) and starting the kernel.

I really like to have serial consoles, as I use many PCs and embedded
machines without any display and keyboard.

Cheers

	Christoph Plattner

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Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >Some days ago i had written about a "Slow Scrolling Copyright" problem.
> >It seems that it was caused by "-DCONSOLE_DUAL" which was the default for
> >mknbi-linux in etherboot-4.5.5, 4.6 doesn't seem to have Serial-Support
> >anymore so the problem should be gone. (Haven't verified it as i have only
> >etherboot-4.5.5 at work)
> 
> Yes, it was when I released 4.6.0 that I noticed that the Linux setup
> block in 4.5.5 had code by Klaus Espenlaub to handle serial consoles.
> Not wishing to maintain serial code in both Etherboot and the setup
> block, I removed the code in the setup block. It just means that if you
> use serial console you won't see the copyright messages from the setup
> block, not a big deal. 4.5 releases were developmental so a glitch or
> two is expected.
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