Serial console

John G. Heim jheim at wisc.edu
Fri Apr 29 22:12:06 UTC 2005


At 05:02 PM 4/29/2005, you wrote:
>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 think the documentation is wrong because I think the default for stock 
kernels is to enable serial console support. IIRC, that changed about 2 
years ago.






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