Bug 769047

Summary:	Install guide does not document "serial" option.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars>
Component:	install-guide	Assignee:	Jack Reed <jreed>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled>
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Description Lars Kellogg-Stedman 2011-12-19 18:36:33 UTC

The Installation Guide (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/ch-Boot-x86.html) provides the following information regarding serial-port based installs:

  If you need to perform the installation in serial mode, type the following command:
  linux console=<device>

This is erroneous.  Without the "serial" option, Anaconda will attempt to display the text-mode interface on a virtual tty rather than on the serial port (even through the system console is using the serial port).

Comment 1 Jack Reed 2012-04-26 04:30:41 UTC

Thanks for reporting this, Lars. Fortunately, I'm told that this has been fixed for F17 and the existing console option will work.