[linuxsh-dev] Logging in from a serial console

[Michael G. <mg...@ho...>]

Hi,

Thanks for your quick response to my last message. Indeed upgrading to
3.0.2 with the lastest patch solved my problem.
On a related note, why are you guys using the 3.0 series anyway?
Wouldn't it be better to stick with something stable, like 2.95.3,
instead of having to continuously track a moving target?

Anyway, I decided to give the debian dc distro a try. Unfortunatly, as
I still lack a DC keyboard, I have to log in from the serial terminal.
(which should be possible according to the distro README).

First I tried connecting (using minicom) to an already running system,
but as that did not work, I devised a new strategy: I connect to the
bootloader during the boot, interupt it, and issue:
mount
load -v /boot/vmlinux
load -v -r -b 0x8c400000 /boot/initrd.gz
exec -c "mem=16M init=/busybox console=ttySC1,115200 /etc/profile"

and it happily redirects all boot messages to the serial console,
however when it gets to the login, it still issues it on the tty0
and not on the serial console!!

What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Mag.