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Re: Serial Console



On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 02:32:47PM -0800,  Shane   wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have setup a Debian system for serial console.
> At boot time specifying the "console=ttyS0,9600"
> will cause all the messages to appear on the dumb terminal except the final login prompt
> which appears on the PC console.
> What else needs to be done to get the login
> prompt on the dumb terminal too.  Thanks for
> your suggestions.

In /etc/inittab near the bottom you will see two commented out serial
console lines. Uncomment the one that suits you, and run "init q" (it will
persist to the next reboot too).

Ben

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