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Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: JakeFury on October 17, 2025, 09:55:49 PM

Title: Install and Run with ttyS0 console only
Post by: JakeFury on October 17, 2025, 09:55:49 PM

Hi All,

Tiny looks very promising for my needs. I have small headless board capable of running with a large amount of spinny disks.

I need to use MD0's and SSH / Webmin maybe - I can get the boot to go via the ttyS0 but when it comes to the actual login - root - says its appearing on tty1 (vga?) that I obviously don't have.

I can tab to edit the options - is it possible to bring the login onto my ttyS0 which is working for the initial part just not the login -

Title: Re: Install and Run with ttyS0 console only
Post by: patrikg on October 18, 2025, 02:04:42 AM

You just need to edit the inittab file in /etc to enable a tty on ttyS0.
If you search a little bit in this forum I think you can find what you need, search for inittab.

Title: Re: Install and Run with ttyS0 console only
Post by: JakeFury on October 18, 2025, 05:51:32 PM

I did - its only mentioned in this post ??

Title: Re: Install and Run with ttyS0 console only
Post by: patrikg on October 18, 2025, 05:59:31 PM

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?action=search2&search=inittab&userspec=patrikg