Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

[Punit Agrawal <punit1.agrawal@toshiba.co.jp>]

Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/05/2020 13:02, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> The above parameters do not launch the installer from the iso here. I am
>> not quite sure what the right arguments are. I wonder if
>> "root=<rootfs_device>" to the kernel will do the trick. Will give that a
>> try.
>
> When I try:
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom *.iso -nographic -vga none
>
> My terminal turns into a GRUB boot menu, where I can edit the
> 'Install' option (by removing 'quiet' and 'vga=788') into:
>
> /install.amd/vmlinuz initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz --- console=ttyS0
>
> Which gets me booting kernel messages, can you try that?

Following the above steps, the VM picks up the DI kernel and I can see
the kernel boot logs on the console.

> (Booting still fails with a "Failed to execute /init (error -2)" in my
> case, but that'd be a separate bug if it's not a problem with my
> setup.)

I see the failure to find init as well.