[BusyBox] Bootup to VGA or serial automatically.

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:08:37PM -0400, tom at ceisystems.com wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> 	This will work with BusyBox's configuration, but you will not
> get any output from your kernel, etc. while booting.  This is why I had
> suggesting setting up two boot configs.  I usually keep a getty waiting
> on ttyS0 anyway, so I can login with a serial cable if needed.

Yup.  I find using kernel command such as
    console=ttyS0 console=tty1
and then always having a getty on tty1 and on ttyS0
works quite nicely at addressing this.  And avoids the
problem of having job control disabled that results from
running a shell on the console.

 -Erik

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