Jonathan Sabo wrote:
> It would be really nice if there were getty's running on ttyS0 and
> ttyS1 and those were added to the the etc/securetty file as well.
>
> Lots of people use serial consoles to manage their servers. I do.
>
Amen to that. And while we're on the subject of even more remotely
possible improvements to the DTK environment, it would be nice to have
an ISOLINUX/PXELINUX boot option for serial console - although for this
to really be meaningful, there are probably some hard-coded dependencies
on /dev/tty0 and /dev/tty1 that would need to be fixed as well. Here's
a fragment of my pxelinux.cfg:
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serial 1 57600 0x3
# above line MUST be first one in file
...
display DTK/message.txt
# need to use tftp mounting as nfs mounting doesn't execute the
share_script...
label 1
kernel DTK/isolinux/SA.1
append initrd=DTK/isolinux/SA.2 ramdisk_size=80527
Stage3_type=network DEBUG=0 quiet share_type=tftp share_location=.
share_script=dell-dtk-bios-update tftp_ip=winwood console=ttyS1,57600n8r
label 2
kernel DTK/isolinux/SA.1
append initrd=DTK/isolinux/SA.2 ramdisk_size=80527
Stage3_type=network DEBUG=0 quiet share_type=tftp share_location=.
share_script=dell-dtk-bios-update
tftp_ip=winwood
label 3
localboot 0x80
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and message.txt:
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...
Enter the number of the boot option you wish to select and then press
the <ENTER> key.
1: Serial Console BIOS update
2: VGA Console BIOS update
3: Boot from Hard Drive
Auto-Boot to <Option 1 -- Serial Console BIOS update> after 10 seconds...
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I run my serial consoles at 57600 (highest speed supported by BMC, DRAC,
and Linux) rather than 9600, just so that stuff doesn't take all day
when I use them - but even a 9600 setting would be better than nothing.
@alex
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