Local shell?

1st Official Post

    Is it possible to create an LE addon to enable "Local Shell"?
    This to minimize need/use of external computer.

    My programming skills aren't even close to be able to decide if this is possible...

    • Official Post

    Adding tty to the boot parameters should give you a shell via CTRL-ALT-F3 on a generic build. It used to work in previous gen builds.

    I don't know if it works for the other hw builds as well.

    The boot parameters he is talking about are the kernel command line, which you can set in /flash/cmdline.txt on the RPi. That said, I'm pretty sure there are no VT's available on the RPi even with the tty option.

    Edited once, last by escalade (August 9, 2016 at 9:30 AM).

    In case anyone finds this thread later, I'll just state that it's technically possible. I've looked into it in the past without much success. There might be a missing kernel option, or maybe some adjustment to systemd is needed. The debugging shell works fine on the RPi, so in theory it should be possible for systemd to spawn a separate VT if configured correctly.