Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux 2.6.10 ?

[Henrik Nordstrom]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Der Herr Hofrat wrote:

> console= only would influence the output of init and beond
> atleast up to the attempt to open the console
> the kernel messages should appear any way.
> as they do with 2.4.21.

You don't get any kenel console output in Linux-2.4 or Linux-2.6 if 
console= is not specified and -nographic is used. This because the VGA 
controller is still precent according to the PCI BIOS, just not emulated. 
Because the Linux kernel finds the VGA controller it automatically selects 
this as the kernel console.

If you compile your kernel without VGA console support then specifying 
console= is not required, as the kernel will then automatically select the 
serial console as this is the first available console device the kernel 
knows about.

Regards
Henrik