On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, shoe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get a RH7.0 box to output the console through a serial link on
> my laptop running win2k. I setup hyperterminal on the laptop and it
> sucessfully connects. On the linux side I followed the steps in the
> tex-terminal how-to. I did a
> "mknod -m 622 console c 5 1"
>
> then added
> serial = 0,9600n8
> append = "console=ttyS0"
>
> to lilo.conf.
>
> Now when I boot up I see the entire boot process through my serial terminal
> just fine (it's really cool) but when the boot process is complete the login
> prompt appears on the monitor attached to the linux box and not through the
> serial terminal. The serial terminal doesn't display anything else except
> when I go to shutdown or reboot then it shows the shutdown process as well.
> What did I do wrong?
>
>
You have to run some version of getty on the serial port.
Edit /etc/inittab and add:
# Direct connect lines.
S1:12345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mgetty -r ttyS0
and configure the port in /etc/mgetty+sendfax. (Or you can use
getty-ps, or any other version of getty - each has its own settup
options.)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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