serial console on feisty server
Tomoki Taniguchi
tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 10:04:05 UTC 2007
you are not starting anything up on the /dev/ttyS0 which is the serial console.
instead of editting /etc/event.d/tty1 and tty2
(these are virtual console running on /dev/tty1 and /dev/tty2 which
corresponds to
CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-F2 virtual consoles.)
you need to copy /etc/event.d/tty to /etc/event.d/ttyS0
edit the new file and replace the last line
"exec /sbin/getty 38400 tty1"
with
"exec /sbin/getty 9600 ttyS0"
save the file and reboot
you should get a login prompt when the system finishes booting
On 4/22/07, Carl Alexander <xela at mit.edu> wrote:
> I'm trying to get a serial console on a 7.04 server machine. I'm
> starting from a clean install from the ubuntu-7.04-server-i386 CD.
>
> I'm fairly sure the kernel is configured for a serial console out
> of the box --- or at least, I don't know why else this would mean:
> ~$ grep -i serial /boot/config-2.6.20-15-server | grep -i console
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
>
> I used the http://www.howtoforge.com/setting_up_a_serial_console
> serial console howto, up until it said to edit /etc/inittab and
> I discovered that I had none. A little googling on this led me
> to discover upstart, and per
> http://blog.mypapit.net/2007/03/where-can-i-find-inittab-in-ubuntu-edgy-eft-or-feisty-fawn.html
> I edited /etc/event.d/tty1 and tty2 instead of /etc/inittab.
>
> The net result of which is:
>
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst, I inserted
>
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
> terminal --timeout=10 serial console
>
> and appended
>
> console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8
>
> to the kernel line in each kernel stanza.
>
> And in /etc/event.d/tty1 and tty2 I changed 38400 to 9600.
>
> Then I re-booted the machine, which produced the following output
> to the serial console (this is from a conserver log; those of you
> familiar with conserver will recognize that I've cleaned up some
> line noise; I've also split up one long line using the usual backslash
> convention):
>
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press any key to continue.
> Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 2
> Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 1
> Press `ESC' to enter the menu... 0
> Starting up ...
> Loading, please wait...
> kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/mapper/uma-swap_1) = dm-1(254,1)
> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/mapper/uma-swap_1
> kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
> * Setting preliminary keymap... [ OK ]
> * Starting basic networking... [ OK ]
> * Starting kernel event manager... [ OK ]
> * Loading hardware drivers... [ 61.018584] EDAC e7xxx: error \
> reporting device not found:vendor 8086 device 0x2541 (broken BIOS?)
> [ 61.172650] intel_rng: FWH not detected [ OK ]
> * Loading kernel modules... * Loading manual drivers... [ OK ]
> * Checking root file system... fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> /dev/mapper/uma-root: clean, 25729/121372672 files, 3963750/242715648 blocks [ OK ]
> * Setting up LVM Volume Groups... [ OK ]
> * Checking file systems... fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> /dev/sda1: clean, 31/62248 files, 24467/248976 blocks [ OK ]
> * Mounting local filesystems... [ OK ]
> * Activating swapfile swap... [ OK ]
> * Configuring network interfaces... [ OK ]
> * Starting system log daemon... [ OK ]
> * Starting kernel log... [ OK ]
> * Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server... [ OK ]
> * Starting deferred execution scheduler atd [ OK ]
> * Starting periodic command scheduler crond [ OK ]
> * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [ OK ]
>
> That to me like grub output, followed by boot messages from the
> kernel, followed by nothing at all --- in particular, a nothing
> notable for the absence of the expected login prompt.
>
> I'd really appreciate any clues as to what's going on here.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ---Alex
>
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