Any way to get a USB-Serial adapter to work at boot time for console redirection?
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Tue Apr 18 23:37:44 UTC 2006
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:31:10PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I have a USB to serial adapter that works great as /dev/ttyUSB0 after my
> > FC5 system is up and running. I need it to work at boot time via
> > grub.conf. I tried adding console=ttyUSB0,9600 to the kernel line of
> > grub.conf but it does not work.
> >
> > Anyone know how to get this device to work at boot time?
>
> The USB layer initialises really late in the bootstrap, even if
> it's all compiled in rather than modular. With more and more laptops
> lacking serial ports, it's a shame, as it'd help diagnose a number of
> problems.
>
> Dave
Thanks Dave. I was thinking of doing a custom initrd, but even that
sounds like a non-starter, eh?
I guess I need to take the null-modem cable and USB-serial adapter back
then... I am trying like heck to get good info on BZ 185229 and just not
having much luck.
Thanks!
Thomas
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