Name
VT_CONSOLE — Support for console on virtual terminal
The system console is the device that receives all kernel
messages and warnings and allows logins in single user mode. If you
answer yes here, a virtual terminal (the device used to interact with
a physical terminal) can be used as system console. This is the most
common mode of operations, so you should say yes unless you want the
kernel messages be output only to a serial port (in which case you
should also enable the Console on 8250/16550
and compatible serial port option).
If you say yes here, by default, the currently visible virtual
terminal (/dev/tty0) will be used
as system console. You can change that with a kernel command line
option such as console=tty3, which
specified the third virtual terminal as the system console. (See Chapter 9 for details about how to pass options to
the kernel at boot time, and what options available.)
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