Bug 63367

Summary:	failure to boot after serial install when using grub as boot loader
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	RLX Technologies <linux-dev>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	skipjack-beta2
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Description RLX Technologies 2002-04-12 23:58:38 UTC

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Description of problem:
A system using only a serial console fails to boot after install when using grub
as the boot loader.  This issue is present in 7.2.93 (Skipjack).

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Perform install from the serial console
2. Choose grub as boot loader

Actual Results:  I believe that grub is loading, but since it is not configured
during install to output to the serial console (like lilo) I get no output.  The
problem causing it not to boot is that it is waiting for input and grub will
never time out.  Also the xpm splash file may be causing problems with the
serial port.

Expected Results:  Grub should be configure to output to the serial console.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-15 20:47:59 UTC

It should timeout since we're setting the timeout to 10 in the grub config and
seems to work for me.  Are you sure it's not hanging anywhere else in boot?

(setting up grub to use the serial console wasn't done in 7.2 either, and we're
past the point of feature changes)

Comment 2 RLX Technologies 2002-04-15 21:41:11 UTC

The generated "timeout=10" doesn't work for us at all.  One or more things are
wrong.  The grub info doc says to use "timeout 10" - notice no equal sign. 
However, I think that this will still - NOT - work for a serial console.  To get
a serial console to work I had to use something like the following (ttyS0):

default 0
timeout 10
serial --unit=0 --speed=38400
terminal --timeout=10 serial

Notice that there are two different timeout values.  One "timeout" and another 
"--timeout=nn" associated with the terminal line.  Without the "--timeout=nn"
being set, and no serial console connected, it would never boot for us since the
code has a "-1", or something less than 0, in the "to" (timeout) field.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-15 22:31:56 UTC

This is not a regression from 7.2 and requires a few more changes than I'd like
to make this late to get "right"  (I need to be able to determine where your
serial console is as well as what the settings are for baud and parity). 
Deferring to do properly for the next release.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-18 05:51:50 UTC

Fixed in CVS

Comment 5 Jay Turner 2002-09-04 13:18:15 UTC

Fix confirmed with re0903.2 tree.

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2002-12-20 17:38:25 UTC

Time tracking values updated