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shipped by distributors are configured to allow the serial console
to be enabled. However system administrators will almost certainly
encounter some problems best solved by recompiling a kernel. In
these cases configure the kernel to support the serial console. The
usual virtual terminal console is also configured, as we normally
want console messages to go a monitor as well as the serial
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