Thursday, 23 June 2011

How to boot Open SuSe 11 to Serial Console

To enable default disable GUI booting and serial redirection to Serial Console.
You will need to edit the /etc/inittab file:

1) Change id:5:initdefault:      à    id:3:initdefault:    
 2) Change #S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty –L 9600 ttyS0 vt102   à  S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty –L 115200 ttyS0 vt102

If you are still having GUI as the default boot. Press Ctrl + Alt + F2 will switch to console and Press Ctrl + Alt + F7 will switch back to GUI.  

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