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

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.