Re: Setting kernel console based on grub console?

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:52:06PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Marco Gerards <address@hidden>:
> 
> > You would need scripting support for that.  I don't think that will
> > make it into GRUB Legacy, but it will be possible with GRUB 2 some
> > day.
> 
> Perhaps we mis-understand each other... I don't want to be able to write that
> psuedo-code as a script, I was just trying to illustrate my point.
> 
> Basically, I would like the specific functionality added to grub where it can
> set the kernel console based on the terminal setting within grub. I'm sure 
> this
> must be fairly trivial :)

I do not think it's trivial, but it's unnecessary. You can simply tell
the kernel that both are the console:
kernel /bzImage console=tty0 console=ttyS0
More details in linuxsource/Documentation/serial-console.txt.
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Didi