Re: Any way to get a USB-Serial adapter to work at boot time for console redirection?

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:31:10PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
 > All -
 > 
 > I have a USB to serial adapter that works great as /dev/ttyUSB0 after my 
 > FC5 system is up and running.  I need it to work at boot time via 
 > grub.conf.  I tried adding console=ttyUSB0,9600 to the kernel line of 
 > grub.conf but it does not work.
 > 
 > Anyone know how to get this device to work at boot time?

The USB layer initialises really late in the bootstrap, even if
it's all compiled in rather than modular.  With more and more laptops
lacking serial ports, it's a shame, as it'd help diagnose a number of
problems.

		Dave

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