I’m a fan of serial consoles for out-of-band access, since having used them a lot for network equipment. Recently, I was trying to figure out a graphics incompatibility on a system using Wayland on Debian and wanted to set up a serial console to try to stop part of the debugging process being so painful. Since systemd has rolled out to Debian though, there are a lot of outdated articles, and now it’s quite a bit easier to get going. According to the Debian Wiki, we can now start a service...
