Serial console

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee_Maschmeyer at wayne.edu on 2005/04/29 at 16:31 -0400]

>but on Fedora 2 that looks like the file I referred
>to originally and starts with the same paragraph:
>
>To use a serial port as console you need to compile the support into your
>kernel - by default it is not compiled in. For PC style serial ports
>it's the config option next to "Standard/generic (dumb) serial support".

That just means that that's the default for a stock kernel. What you need to
know is if RedHat has enabled that option in its RHEL kernels. In FC3 it's on. 
I don't know if it's on or off in RHEL, and I'm not willing to pay for RHEL
just so that I can find out. My guess, though, is that it's on in RHEL as well.
If anyone would care to privately send me a copy of an RHEL kernel source rpm
then I'll look in it to be sure, but it may be just as easy to try it.

I just checked an RHEL box at work, and the base kernel configuration file
indeed has the serial console option enabled.

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