Bug#528560: debian (lenny) installer via serial console does not support hardware flow control (for serial over lan)
> Have you tried booting with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text?
No, I was not aware of the availability of this mode. On Centos, you use "linux text" to boot a text mode installer that works well on vt100 consoles. Maybe the <F1> menu should hint the user about this ...
Anyway, I'll see if I can try it.
>> and I expect the hardware flow control to be working. It is not.
>No ideas about that. If you have the skills, you may be able to do some debugging by booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3.
Ok, I don't know if I'll have time for this, but thanks for the pointer.
François Isabelle | Software Designer | Kontron Canada | T 450 437 5682 |F 450 437 8053 | E francois.isabelle@ca.kontron.com
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Frans Pop [mailto:elendil@planet.nl]
Envoyé : 13 mai 2009 14:07
À : 528560@bugs.debian.org
Cc : Isabelle, Francois
Objet : Re: Bug#528560: debian (lenny) installer via serial console does not support hardware flow control (for serial over lan)
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> As with many SOL implementations, the service processor needs to use
> H/W flow control to avoid the display of scrambled character on the
> console. Especially on "dialog/ncurses" applications that use a lot of
> escape characters to display the interface (such as the debian
> installer).
Have you tried booting with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text?
> and I expect the hardware flow control to be working. It is not.
No ideas about that. If you have the skills, you may be able to do some
debugging by booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3. That will give you a debug shell
before the installer proper is loaded (before init).
How things progress from there is documented in:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/
Cheers,
FJP
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