[olug] Headless servers....serial terminal

Sam Tetherow tetherow at nicusa.com
Fri May 9 15:45:14 UTC 2003


They go in the main section (above the OS definitions)

Trent Melcher wrote:
> Thanks, do these grub lines go into the OS definition section ( after
> title ) or above them?
> 
> Trent
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> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org]On Behalf Of
> Sam Tetherow
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Headless servers....serial terminal
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> 
> RH7.2 with a serial console using grub for a boot loader, the relevant
> grub.conf lines are:
> 
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
> terminal --timeout=10 serial console
> 
>  From /etc/inittab
> s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty ttyS0 CON9600
> 
> Trent Melcher wrote:
> 
>>THat X windows post got me to thinking about some of my servers,  does
>>anyone have a working configuration  of a RH7.2 or higher box using the
>>serial port connecting to a terminl.  I have had this working in RH 6.2
> 
> and
> 
>>below but havent gotten it to work in 7 and above.
>>
>>My lilo.conf for the old boxes use the console=ttyS0,9600
>>
>>and my inittab  has the S0:234:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt100
>>
>>again this owrks for RH6.2 and below, but cant get it to work for RH 7 and
>>above.
>>
>>Trent
>>
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