On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (...) > > >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or > >> at least that was what I used on another distributions, in Debian I'm > >> not sure if remains the same (reviewing the manual...) hum, yep, it's > >> the same :-) > >> > >> > > This saves me from having to repeatedly reboot the box .... thanks :D > > > > For shiggles, I changed 115200 back to 9600 and used telinit q :D, same > > thing, black screen, no login prompt > > What happens if you press any key although there is no prompt? > Sonofa! I never thought to press enter ... when I did, it prompted for a password, so I just hit enter again and was immediately prompted for a user to login with. > Can you test the serial connection from a client other than windows > +putty? Just to start discarding culprits... No need now :D see above. Thanks for the obvious tip lol. -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
