Bug 57146

Summary: RFE: Kickstart over serial console does not display progress
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <alfw>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-12-05 19:26:10 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When kickstart-ing a machine over serial console the entire installaion
takes place without any output on the serial console.
This happens even if the installation kernel is started with
"append serial console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make a kickstart floppy with serial console defined
2.boot your machine with that floppy
3.listen on the serial port and watch the (not appearing) output from
  anaconda

Actual Results:  When the installation kernel boots, it outputs messages
over the
serial console but anaconda does not output anything.


Expected Results:  I would like to see the anaconda progress report on the
serial console.


Additional info:

The anaconda output is redirected into a file locally on the machine
you install. I would like to see some sort of progress report over
the serial console line in order to detect (e.g.) hanging installations
etc.
This is actually not a bug because that never worked and never was
supposed to work.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-12-12 20:27:49 UTC 
Deferring for consideration in a future release.
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-09-30 20:20:40 UTC 
This problem can be fixed by simply reversing the order of the "console"
definitions in the kernel append line:

"append serial console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400"

works just fine.

-- Alf.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-10 07:44:52 UTC 
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