Many hppa users only have a serial console on theire hppa and sometimes they wonder why there serial console does not gave them a prompt. So I think this could be a great idea to add a commented line for activating the serial console. This can also be usefull for others systems of course :) Add in /etc/inittab : #T0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 #T0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 Add in /etc/securetty : ttyS0 ttyS1 ttys/0 ttys/1 It should not be commented in /etc/securetty since it does not introduce any security risk.
I mad a typo when writing last two lines which should be added in securetty. They should be : tts/0 tts/1
Check the bit in the baselayout ebuild: ------------------------------------ # Add serial console ... case ${ARCH} in sparc|mips) cp inittab inittab.orig sed -e 's"# TERMINALS"# SERIAL CONSOLE\nc0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100\n\n# TERMINALS"' \ inittab.orig > inittab || die rm -f inittab.orig ;; esac ---------------------------------- You need to add hppa there. I will do this for next release. The other change however, should be done by the admin (my opinion). Anyhow, will be in 1.8.6.9 in a bit.
