In your /etc/inittab file, near the end, you will see 6 lines starting with a number 1 through 6. Add a line under that that says: 7:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100 This assumes that the baud rate for the serial line is 9600 and you want to use ttyS0 as your serial port. Personally, I usually crank the baud rate up to 115200. Hope this helps. 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 >