On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 17:15 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
On 25/08/06, William L. Maltby BillsCentOS@triad.rr.com wrote:
And I still don't, but maybe a clue? Kernel parameter *if* allowed. I'm looking for the list of those on my machine now. Haven't found them yet, but ...
Was having so much fun, forgot to make my suggestion, based upon the man page. Maybe TERM=linux-m at end of grub line vmlinuz... ?
Tried this, NG. But with what Will discovered below, maybe the OP is approaching nirvana?
I think I need to read up on grub. I also tried the "append=" stuff, but no help (I didn't read up on it, I wonder if I used the rght syntax? Maybe that's only a LILO construct?).
There's further documentation in /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.93.24.EL/sysconfig.txt about the options in /etc/sysconfig/init. The grub man page's a bit sparse but the info page is more forthcoming. Under the "* Serial terminal::" section...
grub> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 grub> terminal serialThe command `terminal' (*note terminal::) chooses which type of terminal you want to use. In the case above, the terminal will be a serial terminal, but you can also pass `console' to the command, as `terminal serial console'. In this case, a terminal in which you press any key will be selected as a GRUB terminal.
However, note that GRUB assumes that your terminal emulator is compatible with VT100 by default. This is true for most terminal emulators nowadays, but you should pass the option `--dumb' to the command if your terminal emulator is not VT100-compatible or implements few VT100 escape sequences. If you specify this option then GRUB provides you with an alternative menu interface, because the normal menu requires several fancy features of your terminal.
There could be more in there but my "info" navigation's useless :)
IIUC, all this, including the "man init" statement about receiving CONSOLE from kernel, relates only to devices, but doesn't help on the "terminal type" (TERM=).
I'll take one last stab by "info grub", viewing the /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.93.24.EL/sysconfig.txt Will discovered and then move on to things I need to do.
Will
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