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Configuring the DRAC 4 to Use a Serial or Telnet Text Console
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Additional information for editing the grub.conf :
1
You may need to disable GRUB's graphical interface and use the text-based interface instead;
otherwise, the GRUB screen will not be displayed in RAC console redirection. To do so,
comment out the line starting with
splashimage
.
2
If you have multiple options in GRUB and you want all of them to start a console session
through the RAC serial connection, you need to add
console=ttyS1,57600
to all options.
The preceding example shows
console=ttyS0,57600
added to only the first option.
Enabling Login to the Console After Boot
Edit the file /etc/inittab , as follows:
Add a new line to configure a getty on the COM1 serial port:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -L 57600 ttyS0 vt100
See the sample file, which shows the addition of the new line.
Table 3-2. Sample File: /etc/innitab
#
# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up
# the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org
# Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes
#
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
# networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit