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[tduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tim Duggan)]

Hi,

-----Original Message-----
From:	Herman Knief [SMTP:herman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Friday, March 31, 2000 12:15 PM

>Has anyone got a true serial console working? 

Not a boot console just login for use with my palm pilot in case of
emergency.

> I have the stock 
>kernel which works with agetty on ttyS0 for logins, but I don't get a 
>true console (no boot messages sent to ttyS0 on startup).  I also 
>have my own kernel with serial console support, but the agetty keeps 
>dying and won't present a login prompt (but I get all the boot 
>messages on startup!)

>What am I doing wrong?

>lilo.conf includes -> serial=0,9600n8
>		      append="console=ttyS0,9600n8"

>inittab includes -> S0:123:respawn:/sbin/agetty -l 9600 ttyS0 vt100

Here may be a problem, you are using the -l option which allows you to
use an alternate login program rather than the default /bin/login. I
think you want -L for local (no carrier detect). That would explain why
you don't get a login prompt, but then you wouldn't get one with a stock
kernel either.

Mine looks like
S0:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0

I'll recompile my kernel this weekend and see what I get.

Tim

>TIA - Herman


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