Serial console using usb2serial adapter?

[dieselnutjob]

I have manjaro booting and I can interact with it using the woodpecker.

I would like to configure manjaro (or another distro if easier) to get me a console on /dev/ttyUSB0 (FTDI FT232R) and for it to be there by default on cold boot.

I found this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/working...al_console but I think it relates to a normal PC that boots with grub.  I don't know how I would do this on a Quartz64.

thanks

[dieselnutjob]

I got it working

Code:

sudo systemctl enable getty@ttyUSB0.service

By default connecting at 9600 8N1 works.
Even if the USB2serial isn't present at boot, it seems to work when you do plug it in.

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It also means that you can have a "normal" OS on eMMC, which doesn't have the serial console thing, and put Manjaro with the above config on a MicroSD card as a "rescue" OS.
If the normal one isn't doing what you want, turn off the box, put the microSD card in, connect a USBtoSerial->nullmodem->serialtoUSB->laptop and boot up the microSD and you have a linux console.

[dieselnutjob]

With the SLARM64 builds this can be achieved by adding a line like this to /etc/inittab:-

Code:

s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyUSB0 115200 vt100

if you want to login directly as root then add ttyUSB0 to /etc/securetty