console=ttyS0 with grub2

Just a quick note so I don’t forget now to enable console logging on systems running grub2 (like Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid).

• edit /etc/default/grub
  • set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"
• run update-grub
• reboot

( more info can be found here )