determine VGA vs. ttyS* console in %pre ?

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Dec 7 01:22:00 UTC 2006


Steve Rikli wrote:
> In article <y9hvekomyu9.fsf at lime.ircam.fr>,
> Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale  <kickstart-list at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>sr at genyosha.net (Steve Rikli) writes:
>>
>>
>>>Is there a way during %pre to determine what the console is?
>>
>>The easiest (only?) way would be parsing /proc/cmdline.
> 
> 
> Yes, excellent!   I ought to be able to make use of that -- thanks.

I'm mildly confused... What you will see in the commandline is those 
console arguments. It's how the kernel knows what to use.



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