On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón <
noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or
>> at least that was what I used on another distributions, in Debian I'm
>> not sure if remains the same (reviewing the manual...) hum, yep, it's
>> the same :-)
>>
>>
> This saves me from having to repeatedly reboot the box .... thanks :D
>
> For shiggles, I changed 115200 back to 9600 and used telinit q :D, same
> thing, black screen, no login prompt
What happens if you press any key although there is no prompt?
Sonofa! I never thought to press enter ... when I did, it prompted for a password, so I just hit enter again and was immediately prompted for a user to login with.
Can you test the serial connection from a client other than windows
+putty? Just to start discarding culprits...
No need now :D see above. Thanks for the obvious tip lol.
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