Is it possible to connect to unraid using a TTY serial cable for the console instead of Keyboard, Video or telnet?

Then I would not have to leave a video card in the box for trouble shooting, say if the network is down...

I've not connected a terminal, but if you put these two lines in your "go" script it should let you log in on the serial ports

sed -i -e "s/^#s1/s1/"  -e "s/^#s2/s2/" /etc/inittab

init q

 

The first line edits the /etc/inittab file to un-comment the two lines for the serial ports,

the second line requests that init re-read the inittab file (and start the process listening on the serial port for use when logging in)

 

The login is at 9600 Baud, so set your serial terminal accordingly.

 

Joe L.

Syslinux can also support a serial interaface so you can change unRAID boot options.

 

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO.html#CONFIGURE-BOOT-LOADER-SYSLINUX

 

 

The last piece is if your motherboard supports BIOS/Serial redirection.

Many Supermicro server class boards support this.

So as long as you do not need to get into the BIOS, you can do the serial redirection with syslinux and the inittab change software change.