[CentOS] serial console oddities with CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Nov 21 17:34:22 UTC 2011


On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Dennis Clarke wrote:

> My config looks like so :
>
> # grep -v "^#" /boot/grub/grub.conf
> default=0
> timeout=30
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
> terminal -timeout=30 serial console

The "timeout" option needs a double-dash: "--timeout".

> title CentOS (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64)
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro
> root=UUID=2396ae8a-7eaa-4690-8701-10fb1b604e21 rd_NO_LUKS
> rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us
> crashkernel=auto rhgb console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8

I've always edited out the "rhgb" option when I depend on a serial 
console, but I honestly haven't checked whether it makes any 
difference in CentOS 6.0.

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