Re: grub via serial line does not show menu

[Felix Matenaar]

Hi,

well it seems like the splashimage line caused my problems:

# Splash Image
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/gentoobox.xpm.gz

Strange that grub isnt able to handle this.
Now my serial line works perfectly.

Thanks,

Felix Matenaar

> Hello,
> i would like to boot via serial line on a x86 pc. Now when i boot the
> machine grub writes "press any key to continue" to the serial port
> but when i press any key, the grub menu is shown on the monitor
> of the booting computer and not in my terminal emulator.
>
> Grub seems to react to my input via serial line because it
> directly runs the menu on the monitor after i pressed a key.
>
> The serial line seems to work because while and after booting
> i can see kernel output in the terminal emulator and login also works.
>
> My configuration:
>
> default         0
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
> terminal --timeout=10 serial console
> timeout         5
>
> # Pretty colours
> color cyan/blue white/blue
>
> # Splash Image
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/gentoobox.xpm.gz
>
> # Kernels
>
> title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel          /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.23-gentoo-r3 
> root=/dev/ram0=/console=tty1 console=ttyS0,9600 init=/linuxrc 
> ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda1 udev vga=0x318 
> video=vesafb;mtrr:3,ywrap,address@hidden
> initrd          /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.23-gentoo-r3
>
>
> As you could see i m using gentoo with 2.6.23 kernel.
> My grub version is 0.97
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Felix Matenaar
>
>
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