Re: serial problems with grub-0.90

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 13:44, Pragnesh Sampat wrote:
> This machine does not have a console.  It has one serial port
> ttyS0/COM1 which is connected to another x86 linux box with a serial
> cable.  I was passing "console=XXX" options to lilo which I did with
> GRUB and I am at least where I was with the lilo config.  I can see
> the boot messages starting with the "Linux version 2.4.7 ..." etc. and
> get a login shell on the. serial line, just like lilo.  So far, so
> good.
> 
> Can I get the grub menu and boot options in my serial terminal?  I
> tried:
> 
>     GRUB  version 0.90  (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
> 
>  [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.  For the first word, TAB
>    lists possible command completions.  Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>    completions of a device/filename. ]
> 
> grub> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
> 
> Error 30: Invalid argument

>From the grub shell, you need to use something like
grub> serial --unit=/dev/ttyS0 --speed=9600

> grub> terminal serial Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This segfault has been fixed in CVS.

Cheers,

Jeremy