Setting up a line-mode terminal

6.14 LPAR mode z/VM guest KVM guest

The line-mode terminals are primarily intended for booting Linux®.

The preferred user access to a running instance of Linux on IBM® Z is through a user login that runs, for example, in an SSH session.

Tip: If the terminal does not provide the expected output, ensure that dumb is assigned to the TERM environment variable. For example, enter the following command:
# export TERM=dumb