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Nicholas suggested  this line:
S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 9600 vt100

Ok, I  put that in  inittab & took out my stuff from rc.local.
Now how do I get to this ttyS0 console?
I seem to have virtual consoles; they change with the f keys.
But none of them is S0 nor ttyS0.