Enabling Login To The Console After Boot; Sample File: /Etc/Innitab - Dell Remote Access Controller 4 Firmware Version 1.30 User Manual

Additional information for editing the grub.conf:
1 You may need to disable GRUB's graphical interface and use the text-based interface instead;
otherwise, the GRUB screen will not be displayed in RAC console redirection. To do so,
comment out the line starting with splashimage.
2 If you have multiple options in GRUB and you want all of them to start a console session
through the RAC serial connection, you need to add console=ttyS1,57600 to all options.
The preceding example shows console=ttyS0,57600 added to only the first option.

Enabling Login to the Console After Boot

Edit the file /etc/inittab, as follows:
Add a new line to configure a getty on the COM1 serial port:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -L 57600 ttyS0 vt100
See the sample file, which shows the addition of the new line.
Table 3-2. Sample File: /etc/innitab
#
# inittab
#
#
# Author:
#
#
# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
# 1 - Single user mode
# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
# networking)
# 3 - Full multiuser mode
# 4 - unused
# 5 - X11
# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:3:initdefault:
# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
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Configuring the DRAC 4 to Use a Serial or Telnet Text Console
This file describes how the INIT process should set up
the system in a certain run-level.
Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org
Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes