Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Base-config should set up a getty on a serial console if the install was > done on a serial console. This is easy; make sure a line like > > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt102 > > is added to /etc/inittab if we're working on a serial console. Such a > line is already present as an example in /etc/inittab; it's just that it > should be uncommented. The configured speed isn't actually important as > the kernel takes care of that (just have to make sure it isn't faster > than the actual terminal's speed); but without this line, a > serial-console-only architecture (such as m68k VME, which is where this > bit me) will install to a full booting system that cannot be used > because there's no way to login.
Fiddling with the inittab and detecting a serial console is out of base-config's scope. The prebaseconfig udeb already sets up a serial console getty if it detects the install was done over serial console. I've reassigned the bug there. -- see shy jo
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