redirect system console to serial port ttyS1 and default as well.

[Tom H]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:25 PM, upen <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't have RHEL 6 yet but in Fedora you have to create
>> "etc/init/ttyS1.conf" with the inittab command (from "/sbin" on)
>> unless the serial console is the primary boot console because, then,
>> "/etc/init/serial.conf" starts ttS* for you.
>>
>> I must admit that the last time that I needed a serial console as a
>> primary boot console (with either F11 or F12), I deleted serial.conf
>> and created ttyS0.conf because I didn't want to have to deal with some
>> upstart elements in serial.conf that I didn't understand and didn't
>> want to understand (at the time; now I'll have to given that we'll be
>> eventually migrating all our boxes from 5 to 6).
>
> Thanks Tom. I will give it this a try. I did try one thing before I
> see your reply. Edited /etc/grub.conf and added
> console=ttyS1,57600n8 infront of kernel line. This made the console
> o/p redirected to ttyS1. Then I connected through IPMI SOL to see if
> it works. Not only that it showed kernel uncompressed but also the
> init process and login prompt which I generally see KVM console. I
> also have KVM over IP which this time did not show the redline which
> shows the progress of boot process but did show login prompt like
> ttyS1
>
> I am glad to see that console got redirected by doing just this ..:) I
> will see if there is any drawback doing like this.

You're welcome.