Subject: Re: serial console
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/22/2005 18:44:13
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:00:18PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I read the question the same way Chris did: can you *run* sysinst 
> > from a serial console at a different baud rate than 9600?
> 
> My impression is that was tricky before this (from David):
> 
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/i386/floppies/common/dot.profile,v
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.4
> date: 2003/12/07 20:03:18;  author: dsl;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
> Don't set baud rate when setting 'sane' stty settings, that way we use
> the baud rate set by the bootloader.

I'd forgotten about that - the next gripe is that if the bios is using
a serial console (eg a Soekris 4801) then the system can't use/detect
the baud rate set by the bios.

	David

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