If you are using systemd you must add a service to /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants I believe you can use serial-getty@ttyGS0.service as a template.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, <brett.bal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a few beaglebone blacks that I want to automatically log in to a > console at boot. I have successfully gotten one of them to do this, but I > cannot remember for the life of me how I did it. Well, I remember how to > disable lightdm so that it has to be started manually by typing 'startx' > from the console. Most of the information I have been finding revolves > around making changed to /etc/inittab. For instance: > > 1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f rfid tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1 > > -or- > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty --autologin debian --noclear tty1 > > found here: > > http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=60915 > > But on the BBB with the working auto login, changing inittab has no effect > on its behavior, so I must have changed something else. I unfortunately > don't remember what that might have been. Does anyone know of another way > to set up auto login not using inittab? Thanks! > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.