Hi all,

I'm sturugging to access my UML through a console and serial line .
I'm hoping someone can help me in the inittab config.

I've sucessfully booted into a UML kernel and I have UMLs iniitab
(relevant part) as -

# We launch just one console for UML:
c0:1235:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty0

The problem is when I'm trying to access it from a 2nd or later console.

To access the VM from multiple consoles, I read the UML book and the
HOWTO and figured that I have to have inittab configured for this. To
understand what inittab and its function I read -

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_admin/x2051.html

In a line like -
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1
can anyone tell me what "9600" means?

I'm asking this because in the UML book I found -
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
I didn't understand what 38400 was for and adding this line in inittab
caused this error -
"INIT: Id 0 respawning too fast"
I searched the fourm and found that the likely cause was a missing
/dev/tty1. But I found UML /dev/tty1 present.

So in short can someone please tell me what I need to have in my
inittab so that I can access a UML console using the screen program on
host ?

Here is my UML startup command -
./linux ubda=root_fs ubdb=swap_fs mem=128M con0=fd:0,fd:1
con1=tty:/dev/tty1 con2=port:9000 ssl=xterm
eth0=tuntap,tap0,FE:F0:00:00:00:02,10.90.90.51 umid=vm001


I have 2 suggestions - one for Jeff and another for Antonie -
Jeff,
Is is possible to mention the changes needed for inittab here-
http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/old/UserModeLinux-HOWTO-5.html
Newbies like myself will find it a lot easier.

Antonie,
Thanks first of all for the Fedora file systems -
http://uml.nagafix.co.uk/
Is it possible to have the required inittab lines (commented) already
in the file system ? People needing the console access can simply
uncomment those lines.

Many thanks,
KM

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