address@hidden: Bug#146854: grub: Provide a way to disable serial console support]

[Jason Thomas]

Hi all, can anyone explain or help with this.

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Matt Zimmerman <address@hidden> -----

> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:11:00 -0400
> From: Matt Zimmerman <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#146854: grub: Provide a way to disable serial console support
> 
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.92-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I recently had to switch back to LILO on one of my servers because it would
> not boot unattended with a device attached to its serial port.  When the
> GRUB menu appeared, the timeout would be immediately cancelled, presumably
> because it saw activity on the serial port.  With the serial cable
> kisconnected, the system booted normally.  I tried 'terminal console' in
> menu.lst, but this did not seem to change anything.
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux mizar 2.4.18 #1 Fri Mar 29 00:49:30 EST 2002 i686
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                    2.2.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-8 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
> 

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