Users Guide

Configuring the DRAC 4 to Use a Serial or Telnet Text Console 53
Additional information for editing the grub.conf:
• You may need to disable GRUB's graphical interface and use the text-based
interface; otherwise, the GRUB screen will not be displayed in RAC
console redirection. To do so, comment out the line starting with
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• If you have multiple options in GRUB and you want all of them to start a
console session through the RAC serial connection, add
console=
ttyS1,57600
to all options. The example in Table 3-1 shows
console=ttyS0,57600 added to only the first option.
Enabling Login to the Console After Boot
Edit the file /etc/inittab by adding the following new line to configure a getty
on the COM1 serial port:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -h -L 57600 ttyS0 vt100
The sample file (see Table 3-2) shows the new line.