>Does this mean, Etherboot supports or supported serial console ? >This is the thing I think it is very important. I also work on a >serial support for the boot loader GRUB. Yes, it does and has for quite a long time. >Copyright block or not .... is it possible to observer the >downloading process via serial console ? Yes. >I mean the messages, which ethernet i/f was found, io addresses, irq >the MAC address and the status of querying the server (bootp) and >of downloading the image(s) and starting the kernel. Yes. >I really like to have serial consoles, as I use many PCs and embedded >machines without any display and keyboard. Provided your BIOS is happy without a keyboard and without a display adaptor. All that is not enabled is the printing of the messages from the startup segment that Etherboot jumps to, which then jumps to the Linux kernel. =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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