[Nottingham] Preventing console starting on embedded arm-linux setup

[Mark O'Shea]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Ant Allen wrote:
> > use the kernel command line
> > "console=ttyS1"
> > should do the trick.
>
> Still got tux and a flashing cursor ;-(
> By default I have the following command line:
>
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,38400 root=/dev/nand
>
> This is already pointing the console to ttyS0, right?
>
Yup, the problem is that it isn't the kernel that's outputting to the
screen, it's the boot loader.  It's the same with grub, when I use a
serial console instead of the screen I still end up with:
  Booting commandlist

kernel (hd0,3)/vmlinuz2.6.6 root=/dev/hdb6 ro console=ttys0
    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0xa00,size=0xf21db]

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

So I guess what is needed is for the boot loader to clear the screen for
you.  I don't know how you would do that, but if all else fails the source
will probably be available for yours...

-- 
Mark O'Shea