[systemd-devel] Expected terminal type for sd-boot on a serial console?

[Ian Pilcher]

On 12/28/24 12:37 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I've got three machines which have serial (only) consoles, all of which 
> are using sd-boot from systemd 257. I use Minicom, in VT102 mode, to 
> connect to these machines, and while the console generally works, there 
> is no 'highlighting' in the sd-boot menu. As a result it's rather 
> difficult to choose a non-default entry to boot.

Have you tried good old screen?  I was never able to get minicom to work
all that well for Linux serial consoles, but screen works great.  For
example, I connect to my headless firewall with:

   screen /dev/ttyS0 115200,cs8


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