RFE for Install-CD

[Sig Pam <spam@itserv.de>]

Hi!

I have a Request For Enhancement: I'd like to see a minor modification 
to the GRUB boot loader to support headless systems with a serial 
console. At this time, GRUB assumes you have a keyboard and monitor 
connected, which is often not true on enterprise servers for data centers.

As far as I see, there are only a few changes required to 
/boot/grub/menu.lst:

#
# Support serial console
#
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal --timeout=10 serial console

and there should be a kernel image to be selected which has the 
"console=ttyS0" kernel option. So done, a debian installer can boot the 
cd on a headless system, press a key and enter grub in serial mode. Than 
he could run the kernel with console=ttyS0 and happily install.

The baud rate 9600/8/n/1 is selected to be compatible with the default 
settings for most terminal servers in datacenters, it's also the default 
speed for Sun's serial consoles.

Sorry, I'm not on the list, so if you want to discuss this RFE, contact 
me by sending a mail to com.itserv-gmbh@bauer.peter (in word-reverse 
order, thus peter.bauer...).

  Peter

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