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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] user guide: clarify the example for Xen serial conso

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] user guide: clarify the example for Xen serial console
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:20:48 +0200
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Add 'console=xxx' to the Xen serial console section to make it obvious
that one might need to specify 'console=xxx' and not just 'comX=xxx'
if one isn't using the default com1,vga.

Signed-Off-By: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -r a9f3abcc4149 -r 04bed0651390 docs/src/user.tex
--- a/docs/src/user.tex Sat Feb 25 12:27:53 2006 +0100
+++ b/docs/src/user.tex Sat Feb 25 18:16:20 2006 +0200
@@ -633,12 +633,15 @@ add a boot option to your GRUB config; e
 add a boot option to your GRUB config; e.g.\ replace the previous
 example kernel line with:
 \begin{quote} {\small \begin{verbatim}
-   kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 com1=115200,8n1
+   kernel /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 console=com1,vga com1=115200,8n1
 \end{verbatim}}
 \end{quote}
 
-This configures Xen to output on COM1 at 115,200 baud, 8 data bits, 1
-stop bit and no parity. Modify these parameters for your environment.
+This configures Xen to output on COM1 at 115,200 baud, 8 data bits, no
+parity and 1 stop bit. Modify these parameters for your
+environment. See Section~\ref{s:xboot} for explanation of all boot
+parameters.
 
 One can also configure XenLinux to share the serial console; to achieve
 this append ``\path{console=ttyS0}'' to your module line.

-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/


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