Re: modifying kernel boot parameters

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Malcolm Herbert <mjch%mjch.net@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:07 -0400, "matthew sporleder"
> <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> > Any ideas why I can't specify consdev as above? This looks to me to be a
>> > bug ...
>> >
>> > I did attempt to modify the INSTALL_FLOPPY config to use com0 as the
>> > console and recompiled it, however that doesn't seem to have made any
>> > difference ...
>>
>> installboot -e -o console=com0 -o speed=0 -m i386 ./pxeboot_ia32.bin
>>
>> http://mspo.com/soekris.html
>
> excellent, thanks ... will look into this when I get home tonight.
>
> Does this imply that the boot prompt during the PXE boot is really
> broken?

You mean the one you see?  I think that stage of the boot displays to
both com and vga.  The second stage switches to one or the other, if I
remember correctly.