Tim: Are you certain you were booting to runlevel 3? The symptom you describe is classic for runlevel 5 which won't be accessible until we get to gnopernicus. Check in /etc/inittab, of course. On Wed, 8 May 2002, Tim Pennick wrote: > > Jason, > > Congratulations!!! > > I've been trying to arrange Red Hat training for months, and through no fault > of Red Hat's, am only now shortly to start the training. I/m intending to try > to do this via their E-learning site. > > My question comes back to the much discussed connection via serial port (which > I willl need if/when I get as far as attempting the exam). > > I nearly got this working a few months ago, and I could read the boot-up > messages etc., but once the system tried to display the login prompt, > everything went quiet, and nothing else came out of the serial port until I > shut the system down. > > Could you give us the definitive version of what you did to configure the > system. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Tim Pennick > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org