Installing Linux on PC Engines Alix2d13 (part 2.5)

After publishing I rea­li­zed that I could have sup­plied more infor­ma­tion, and more down­lo­ads, than I did in my pre­vious post.

Here are links to pat­ched ver­sions of Debian netboot.tar.gz (stable/Squeeze, testing/Wheezy and daily build), all down­lo­a­ded and pat­ched today, 2011-05-10:

• netboot-ttyS0-stable-110510.tar.gz


• netboot-ttyS0-testing-110510.tar.gz


• netboot-ttyS0-daily-110510.tar.gz

What my script does, basi­cally, is this:

1. Untar the tar­ball and cd to debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/ where all changes are made.


2. In the file syslinux.cfg (which is actu­ally a file with PXELINUX con­fi­gu­ra­tions) two lines are added:
   
   
   
   1. serial 0 38400—tel­ling PXELINUX to use ttyS0 for I/O (i.e. as console).
   
   
   2. con­sole 0—do not try to use any video console
   
   
   
   


3. In the files adtxt.cfg, rqtxt.cfg and txt.cfg sub­sti­tute any occu­rence of vga=788 for ttyS0,38400n8. This is done in order to tell the ker­nel that:
   
   
   
   1. There is no graphic/video console
   
   
   2. The con­sole that should be used is the first serial port, and with the spe­ci­fied settings.