Re: Console on serial

[bj@zuto.de (Rainer Clasen)]

Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:
> The script /etc/init.d/single kills all processes, then switches to 
> single user mode, and executes the line "~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin" in 
> inittab but not the getty on the serial console. I have read the 
> manpages init and inittab, and can't see why my entry fails to start.

you have to compile your kernel with sercon support and boot it with
console=ttyS0 (or whatever)

see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt for details



Rainer

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