Please help solve #504721

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Bcc: debian-devel

Hi,

We have recently recognized that serial console detection in the 
installer is not working as expected, which resulted in RC bug 
http://bugs.debian.org/504721. If you have access to a machine through 
serial console, please provide debugging information which can help 
with resolving this bug. The following information would be very 
useful:

1. Basic information about the serial console setup (whether 
machine is completely headless, etc.) and contents of 
/proc/cmdline.
2. Output of 'grep -i console /var/log/dmesg' (or 'dmesg | grep -i 
console' if you booted recently and boot messages have not been purged 
from dmesg buffer yet).
3. If you have a chance of booting the installer on the machine, 
output of 'dmesg | grep -i console' from the installer shell both 
without and with the 'console=<your_serial_console_device>' 
(for example, 'console=ttyS0') specified on the command line. Does 
adding the option result in any changed in installer appearance?

Thanks.
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Jurij Smakov                                           jurij@wooyd.org
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