<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=160493708-13102009><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=160493708-13102009><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=160493708-13102009><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to setup a RHEL5.4 server to output to a serial console with as little setup effort as possible. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=160493708-13102009><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=160493708-13102009><FONT face=Arial size=2>When i was doing the same on RHEL4, it was a two step process:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>1) add </SPAN>console=ttyS1,19200<SPAN class=160493708-13102009> to the kernel boot argument at install time</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>2) add bootloader --location mbr --append="console=ttyS1,19200" to the kickstart file.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>This set up everything required in the following files:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>/boot/grub/grub.conf</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>/etc/inittab</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>/etc/securetty</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>And life was easy...</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>I am now trying to do the same thing in RHEL5 but it is not having the same effect. Using the setup above, It sets up the grub config but doesnt setup the inittab or securetty entries, resulting in no output to the serial console after the server has booted. Obviously i could handle this in the post section and ammend the files as required, but i was wondering if anyone had an elegant solution that makes it as easy as the way i did it on RHEL4?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>Thanks</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009>Adam</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=160493708-13102009> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">__________________________________________________________________</p> <p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">You might be interested in this...</p> <table width="526" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top"><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><strong>RM Technical Seminars - Autumn 2009<br /> </strong>Coming to a venue near you from 2nd November to 4th December.<br /> <a href="http://www.rm.com/Secondary/Events/EvtDetail.asp?EventID=100657&SrcURL=ICS011009">Book your place now...</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">__________________________________________________________________</p> <p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color:#006600; margin-bottom:15px;">P.S. 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