Dell Remote Access Controller 4 Firmware Version 1.30 Enabling Login to the Console After Boot

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Additional information for editing the grub.conf:

1You may need to disable GRUB's graphical interface and use the text-based interface instead; otherwise, the GRUB screen will not be displayed in RAC console redirection. To do so, comment out the line starting with splashimage.

2If you have multiple options in GRUB and you want all of them to start a console session through the RAC serial connection, you need to add console=ttyS1,57600 to all options. The preceding example shows console=ttyS0,57600 added to only the first option.

Enabling Login to the Console After Boot

Edit the file /etc/inittab, as follows:

Add a new line to configure a getty on the COM1 serial port:

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -L 57600 ttyS0 vt100

See the sample file, which shows the addition of the new line.

Table 3-2. Sample File: /etc/innitab

#

# inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up

#the system in a certain run-level.

#

#Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org

#Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes

#Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:

#0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

#1 - Single user mode

#2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have

#networking)

#3 - Full multiuser mode

#4 - unused

#5 - X11

#6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

#

id:3:initdefault:

#System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

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Configuring the DRAC 4 to Use a Serial or Telnet Text Console