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Well, your inittab makes one thing clear... Your system creates one and only one terminal, hardwired to the serial port and nothing else.

I don't know of any straightforward way to attach your keyboard to it instead, though, for a couple reasons:

A keyboard is not a terminal. You cannot write data to a keyboard. You need to somehow multiplex two things into one device here.
You could easily brick your machine here by messing up the primary terminal. Does it by any chance have a second serial port?

I've been looking for a way to multiplex two things into one device. Nothing yet. It might be necessary to create a pseudo-terminal device yourself and emulate it.

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