Headless System via serial port?

[Ceri Davies]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:00:14AM -0600, Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> Is that all you did to get it working?  It goes through the boot process
> just fine over the terminal, but kernel hands the login back over to
> vidconsole again right away.  I even tried changing the -P to a -Dh,
> still nothing.  Same effect.

You also need to turn on ttyd0 in /etc/ttys:

ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on secure

Then send init a HUP.

Ceri

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