Serial console

[John G. Heim]

I can tell you for sure that you do not have to recompile the kernel to get 
a serial console on Red Hat ES 3.0.

At 03:31 PM 4/29/2005, you wrote:
>Dave,
>
>Thanks very much, 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".
>
>This same file (at least the beginning) is on Enterprise Linux 3
>also. I'm not saying I believe it, but that's what it says.
>
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>
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