Very good. Up to now, I used 'netboot' not 'etherboot'. But I will prefer 'etherboot' soon, as all drivers are avilable in source codes, and I also want to change drivers for example for my new self made interfaces on base of the www.embeddedethernet.com. Under Linux it works. So I don't know about -DCONSOLE_SERIAL as I had no look at etherboot sources. !!!! Cheers Christoph Plattner Klaus Espenlaub wrote: > > Christoph Plattner wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Copyright block or not .... is it possible to observer the > > downloading process via serial console ? > > 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. > > Sure it is possible - what else do you think the -DCONSOLE_SERIAL or > -DCONSOLE_DUAL settings in src/Config are for ;) > They are even properly documented. Etherboot supported serial console > for ages. The only thing that was dropped is the serial console > support in the NBI second stage loaders - but this is not important for > the normal user, as it only prints a few lines before the loaded kernel > starts. Even the menu can be used over the serial line (though it is > probably a bad idea to use -DANSIESC with a serial console, partly due to > Etherboot limitations). > =========================================================================== > This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: > Klaus Espenlaub <espenlaub@informatik.uni-ulm.de> > 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. -- +--------V--------+ Christoph.Plattner@alcatel.at | A L C A T E L | ----------------------------- +-----------------+ Phone: +43 1 27722 3706 T A S Fax: +43 1 27722 3955 =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@alcatel.at> 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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