Package: installation-reports Version: ~/joeyh/dailybuild/i386/netboot/ 30 september 2004 Severity: wishlist Hello, A netboot install on a i386 with serial console went mostly fine. Here is my feedback: * Had to use the newt frontend, but that is not funny on serial line. Please include cdebconf-text-udeb, to make DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text possible. * to get a nice behaving base-config [1] You have to install the libterm-readline-gnu-perl package in the target chroot and `dpkg-reconfigure debconf` to set readline. Do that in a shell before reboot into second stage.[2] * No kernel messages and no grub menu is shown on the serial console. With this patch on /boot/grub/menu.lst it does. diff -u -r2.0 menu.lst --- menu.lst 2004/10/01 19:07:54 2.0 +++ menu.lst 2004/10/01 19:12:45 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ timeout 5 # Pretty colours -color cyan/blue white/blue +#color cyan/blue white/blue ## password ['--md5'] passwd # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing @@ -84,18 +84,21 @@ ## howmany=7 # howmany=all +serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 +terminal --timeout=5 serial console + ## ## End Default Options ## title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-686 root (hd0,0) -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro +kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=ttyS0,9600n8 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-686 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-686 (recovery mode) root (hd0,0) -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single +kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro single console=ttyS0,9600n8 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-686 savedefault boot Geert Stappers [1] it doesn't shown the default in the menus, neither selections. [2] no need to implement this in the program source code.
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