2009/8/28 Nicolas Pitre nico@cam.org:

I don't know if the filesystem image has this by default, but configuring an agetty process on ttyS0 is really helpful.

/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 115200

This way you can log in through the USB serial link.

The fedora 10 I tried (I downloaded its rootfs) already 'somehow' provided a agetty in ttyS0. That's spawned through upstart, at /etc/event.d/serial (iirc). But after logging in, in a few seconds of using bash I got presented again a login prompt (like an agetty restarted in that terminal). After that, either bash or agetty grab the chars I send.

I thought I understood upstart quite well, but I don't understand the kind of 'magic' in /etc/event.d/serial. Don't you experience the same?

Regards, Lluís.