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Re: Bug#704169: www.debian.org: Installation Guide lacking information on serial console installation



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Control: reassign -1 installation-guide

Hi Øyvind,

Thanks for your report, reassigning it where it belongs.

Le 28/03/2013 15:27, Øyvind 'bolt' Hvidsten a écrit :

> Dear Maintainer,
> While installing Debian on a Netgear ReadyNAS while connected to its
> serial port (no screen connector on device) booting a netinstall CD
> image from a USB stick resulted in a couple of random lines of
> underscores showing up just after post. The boot menu does not function
> well over a serial connection. (The same USB stick works perfectly on a
> desktop machine)
> 
> What I had to do was repeatedly bang the escape key during post, ending
> up with the text "Aborted." and "boot: " on my console. Running "install
> video=off console=ttyS0,9600n8" from said prompt kicked off a text mode
> installation without any further issues.
> 
> I was unable to find detailed information on such an install procedure
> in the Installation Guide. It should probably be mentioned.

Regards

David

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