Activate the serial console

[herby (Heribert Schorn)]

How can I activate the serial console after install?
(I did a standard installation with monitor and keyboard, however I would like to use now the serial connection)

[roberto (Roberto Peña)]

Hi @herby

May be this help you:

Serial Console - The IPFire Wiki

Regards.

[arne_f]

here the part of the initskript that enable the serial console

# Enable serial console in GRUB defaults
          echo "GRUB_TERMINAL=\"serial console\"" >> /etc/default/grub
          echo "GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND=\"serial --unit=0 --speed=115200\"" >> /etc/default/grub
          sed -i -e "s|panic=10|& console=ttyS0,115200n8|g" /etc/default/grub
 # Re-generate GRUB configuration
          /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[herby (Heribert Schorn)]

Perfect , thanks’ a lot.