[Fedora-xen] inittab corrupted/serial console broken on Xen-ified kernel?

[Evan Lavelle]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>> 46,47c46
>> < # co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 96 9600 vt100-nav
>> < co:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 115200 vt100
>> ---
>>>  co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty xvc0 96 9600 vt100-nav
>> In other words, a commented entry was uncommented, and the following
>> line was deleted, which explains why I can't log in. This is so bizarre
>> that it almost looks like it was done on purpose (was it ? :))
>>
>> Anyone seen this? Any ideas?
> 
> Xen takes over the serial port; it's modifying the line to point
> to the xen console device.

Interesting. So the "Serial Console Login configuration" in the manual 
(v3.0 User's Manual, p13) is wrong? The modified inittab is also 
incorrect; an error message appears on the serial output, and in the 
system logs, every 5 minutes ("Dec 14 17:52:35 thor init: Id "co" 
respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes").

How do I get a remote login over a serial line? Is this still possible?

Thanks -

Evan