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Re: "Scrolling Copyright" solved




>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. 

Yes, it does and has for quite a long time.

>Copyright block or not .... is it possible to observer the
>downloading process via serial console ?

Yes.

>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.

Yes.

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

Provided your BIOS is happy without a keyboard and without a display
adaptor.

All that is not enabled is the printing of the messages from the startup
segment that Etherboot jumps to, which then jumps to the Linux kernel.
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