I'm booting Knoppix on a board which does not have a VGA port.

How do I redirect the console out COM1?

By default, Knoppix boots as follows (thank you Werner for pointing me to the instructions on how to install Knoppix on this CF card):

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PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99m
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 848A CF CARD
Phys C/H/S 15490/16/63 Log C/H/S 971/255/63 LBA

SYSLINUX 4.04 EDD 20110711 Copyright (C) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
boot: knoppix
Loading linux......
Loading minirt.gz...ready.
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But I see nothing further, after that last 'Loading minirt.gz...ready.' line. And hitting 'Enter' does not produce a result.


I tried adding 'console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8' as cheat codes. Also, 'console=tty0 console=ttyS1,38400n8'.

DEFAULT knoppix
APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off initrd=minirt.gz nomce libata.force=noncq hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 tz=localtime console=tty0 console=ttyS1,38400n8
TIMEOUT 100
# TOTALTIMEOUT 20
# KBDMAP german.kbd
PROMPT 1
F1 boot.msg
F2 f2
F3 f3
[...]


But adding these two 'cheat code' does not change the behavior.

Is there a different 'cheat code' other than 'console' that I want to investigate?

--sk

Stuart Kendrick