Re: Serial console on sparc 20

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:52:07PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 09:46:35AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:43:23AM +0100, Erwan MAS wrote:
> > > Hello ,
> > > 
> > > How change the default value for the linux console ?
> > > 
> > > My current value is ttyS0. I want to change to ttyS1 .
> > 
> > Edit /etc/inittab, and edit the line near the bottom that looks like:
> > 
> > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> > 
> > Change it to:
> > 
> > T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
> > 
> > and run:
> > 
> > % init q
> 
> And if you also want to have the output of the kernel console (which
> might differ from the serial line with the getty) on that serial port,
> you should start the kernel with the option "console=ttyS1,9600".

Or set input/output in the PROM to ttyb instead of ttya. IIRC, the
kernel will pick on this automatically.

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