Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
> The lack of serial console support is a very long standing bug in the
> Debian installer. See for example https://bugs.debian.org/309223
> opened 15 years ago, and closed 10 years ago without any attempt to fix
> the problem.
:-(
> The bug has been carefully forward ported from syslinux to grub, keeping
> the intended(?) non-working default.
>
> I believe most users have given up. After all, you rarely need to
> install Debian more than once one a system. And you easily live with
> having to modify the installer slightly.
Virtual Machines (Qemu, KVM, Xen, ... ) and OCI containters ( "Docker
images") are the new serial port only computers.
In other words: There are many servers without video hardware.
Regards
Geert Stappers
Yes, I should provide patches ...
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