Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:54 AM Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 01:15:37AM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote:
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> >To avoid needing any workarounds such as those discussed in earlier
> >replies, I looked at enabling the installer images to output on the
> >serial console by default. The attached simple change to the grub
> >configuration gives output on serial as well as connected monitor.
> >
> >The next issue that needs fixing is to update the kernel command line
> >to launch the installer on the serial console.
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> I think few people have been bothered by this in the past - all the
> server machines I've used for years have had options for redirecting a
> VGA console to the serial port. Do you have one that doesn't?
Actually, I was installing in "-nographic" VM rather than a server.
There are workarounds that allow me to continue earlier in the thread
(See #67, #68) but I was hoping to improve things so that it just
works.
I was just surprised that it isn't possible to use the installer
without a VGA monitor (or a redirect on hardware that supports it) -
especially coming from arm64. There are a few other use cases that
will benefit from the serial support as well.
Considering that it looks to be a configuration issue - do you think
it's worth enabling? Are there any downsides that I am missing?
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