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Bug#457403: debian-installer: Serial console parameters are not used when generating grub config



reassign 457403 grub-installer
forcemerge 445584 457403
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Quoting Chris Adams (cadams@salk.edu):
> Package: debian-installer
> Version: 20070308etch1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Our cluster nodes PXE boot with the following parameters:
> 	append initrd=debian/etch/DI/amd64/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=18000 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw console=ttyS0,57600n8 auto url=http://198.202.70.23/DI/preseed-etch-node DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text locale=en_US priority=critical interface=auto netcfg/dhcp_timeout=60
> 
> The serial console works for the initial install but the generated
> /boot/grub/menu.lst won't have a console line. Adding the older sarge-style d-i
> boot parameters doesn't help, either:
> 
> debian-installer/console/type=serial debian-installer/console/serial/speed=57600
> 
> I've kludged around this in our preseed/late-command script:
> 
> chroot /target sed -i 's/kopt=.*$/& console=ttyS0,57600n8/g' /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> Although the effects are similar this doesn't appear to be related to #416310
> since we're using the full serial console parameter.


This is indeed bug #445854....

It probably just needs someone to care enough and add the needed code
to grub-installer to have it use the options passed to the d-i kernel
and add them to the relevant menu.lst entries on the installed system.

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