Bug 841480

Summary:	RFE: need a easy way to configure serial port console with getty in kickstart
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.3	CC:	atodorov, ghelleks, ichute, notting
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Last Closed:	2012-10-18 19:24:04 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Subhendu Ghosh 2012-07-19 06:28:57 UTC

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Some hardware roadmaps don't include graphics card or keyboard inputs - only serial ports. In order to debug these systems without a network ssh session or a local console with a keyboard and video card, we need a functioning serial port with both input and output capability.  Output is managed by kernel console= option and that is exposed by anaconda, but there is no equivalent for inittab munging.

It would be really useful to have a anaconda option that would enable getty on all the appropriate run levels


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-07-19 20:10:19 UTC

Need more clarity: any time console=ttyS... is passed, a getty is automatically spawned on the serial console. What more is required?

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2012-10-18 19:24:04 UTC

I don't think this is relevant to RHEL-6.  upstart in RHEL-6 is configured by default to automatically start a getty on the console if it's a serial console.  It does this by examining the console= paramter, so we do not need to make any adjustments to /etc/inittab.

Marking this as CLOSED NOTABUG.