Disable Raspberry Pi Serial Console

see more information on the official raspberry pi forum. Long story short, when the pi boots, its sends data on the GPIO, some of them are connected to the rapiro don't play well with each other..

and with that script, you can easily enable or disable the serial console.

installing the script

just copy and paste this line into you terminal console

sudo wget https://raw.github.com/lurch/rpi-serial-console/master/rpi-serial-console -O /usr/bin/rpi-serial-console && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-serial-console

the script is now installed on your PI.

commands
  • Paste the following code to the terminal to find out the serial console status.
rpi-serial-console status
  • to enable enable serial console
sudo rpi-serial-console enable
  • to disable serial console type this.
sudo rpi-serial-console disable