From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Apr 6 07:50:30 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] boot message redirected to serial ? From: Alan Hourihane To: Jo Even Skarstein Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <7ED5AD17DC76489FA98A78B71C1E9105@mercatus.local> References: <4BB92C98.20809@gmail.com> <1270549376.19190.119.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <7ED5AD17DC76489FA98A78B71C1E9105@mercatus.local> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:48:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1270554480.19190.120.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 12:55 +0200, Jo Even Skarstein wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Alan Hourihane" > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 12:22 PM > To: "Miro Kropacek" > Cc: "Mariusz Buras" ; > Subject: Re: [MiNT] boot message redirected to serial ? > > > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 12:12 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> > >> Is it possible to redirect boot message to serial line ? It > >> would be awesome as a development aid of a network driver. > >> It is, but I'm not sure what exact steps you need to take. Definitely > >> you need debug version of kernel... probably best to look into > >> sources, I'm 100% sure Frank used serial line for kernel development a > >> lot. > > > > Right. You need a debug kernel and in the MINT.INI you can specify where > > the debug output is sent. Alternatively hit the SHIFT key when prompted > > and you can toggle where you want the output. > > He is talking about "boot message", not debug output. So if you want to > redirect the console to the serialport you can change the console-device in > mint.cnf: Ah yes. Good catch. He's got both options now too :-) Alan.