SOL White Paper

The following action is to enable Linux boot procedure to be displayed also in SOL
console by adding “console=ttyS1,115200n”
Add the following comment line before the first title line:
title SUSE Linux* Enterprise Server 10 SP2 SOL Session
Append SOL Monitor to the first title line.
# title linux SOL Monitor
Append the following text to the kernel line of the first title section:
console=ttyS1,19200 console=tty1
Add the following lines between the first two title sections:
# This will allow you to Interact with the OS boot via SOL
title linux SOL Interactive
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 acpi=oldboot vga=791
console=tty1 console=ttyS1,19200
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
The result is as shown in following figure.
Allow users to login as root from SOL console:
Modify the /etc/security file by adding the following line to enable users to log in as
root at the SOL console:
ttyS1
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