[olug] Headless servers....serial terminal

[Sam Tetherow]

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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