address@hidden: Bug#183576: feature request]

[Jason Thomas]

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> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:54:07 -0500
> From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Bug#183576: feature request
> 
> Package: grub
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> This is more for upstream, but...
> 
> I just discovered the "terminal" command in grub and its feature where
> it can run the grub interface on either the serial console or the VGA
> console, depending on where a key is hit first.  What I think would be a
> really cool extension to that would be to somehow get grub to pass that
> info along to the Linux kernel via the console= parameter.  So if the
> user boots the system from the serial console, grub will pass
> console=ttyS0 to the kernel, but if they boot from the vga console,
> it'll pass console=vga.  That would be so cool!
> 
> noah
> 
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