Display boot menu on both framebuffer and text consoles?

[bkshoemaker]

I tried enabling text-mode serial output for ZBM via command line option, which displayed the boot menu fine* over serial, but that disabled the menu on the framebuffer console. Is there a way to make the menu display on both consoles at the same time?

*the size of the menu was actually severely constrained -- is there a way to set columns and rows for serial output from the command line?

[zdykstra]

The main interface can only be shown on one display at a time. It will launch on the last console= parameter defined on the ZBM KCL. Since a getty isn't spawned for anything, there's no reasonable way to launch it anywhere else except through SSH.

The kernel parameters zbm.lines and zbm.columns can be used to set the size of a serial interface. They aren't sanity checked; whatever integer value is set for each will be passed to stty.

[neilbags]

I also came here to ask about this. Is there any workaround available or enhancement planned that would support this?

[zdykstra]

There is no workaround short of embedding an SSH server in the ZBM image. There are currently no plans to add in support for multiple local controlling terminals.