Re: "Scrolling Copyright" solved

[Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de>]

Christoph Plattner wrote:
> 
> 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.

Sure it is possible - what else do you think the -DCONSOLE_SERIAL or
-DCONSOLE_DUAL settings in src/Config are for ;)
They are even properly documented.  Etherboot supported serial console
for ages.  The only thing that was dropped is the serial console
support in the NBI second stage loaders - but this is not important for
the normal user, as it only prints a few lines before the loaded kernel
starts.  Even the menu can be used over the serial line (though it is
probably a bad idea to use -DANSIESC with a serial console, partly due to
Etherboot limitations).
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