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Re: Bug#683124: debian-installer: incomplete serial console configuration



reassign 683124 grub-installer
thanks

christian mock, le Sun 29 Jul 2012 01:13:06 +0200, a écrit :
> The installer, when run with a serial console, does configure some
> parts of the system to account for this, but not all.
> 
> When I run the installer (from debian-6.0.5-i386-businesscard.iso) and
> edit the installer's kernel command line to include
> "console=ttyS0,9600n8", the installed system then has a getty on ttyS0
> configured in inittab, and "GRUB_TERMINAL=serial" plus
> "GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND" in /etc/default/grub, so the installed system
> works with that serial console.
> 
> What is missing, however, is the matching "console=ttyS0..." parameter
> in "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX", so the boot messages go to the VGA console
> and (if the boot suceeds) the next thing I see on the serial console
> is the login prompt.

Indeed.  It's almost there in grub-installer, but apparently not
completely: it seems to be appending it to entries for existing linux
installations, but not for the installed system...

Samuel


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