Bug 822141

Summary: invalid documentation for "serial" boot option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Will Woods <wwoods>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Kamil Páral 2012-05-16 13:18:56 UTC
Description of problem:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Options includes "serial" boot option to enable serial console support. But during boot you'll receive a message that "serial" was removed and that you must use "console=" option. The documentation has to be updated.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2012-05-16 14:08:06 UTC
You know, it is a wiki.

Comment 2 Kamil Páral 2012-05-16 15:13:39 UTC
Yes, but I don't feel certain enough with my knowledge to adjust documentation used by thousands of other users. It's better when some anaconda team member takes care of it.

Comment 3 Will Woods 2012-05-16 18:14:55 UTC
I'm working on full documentation for all the changed options in F17, but it's going to be a while.

In the meantime, edit the wiki. You can't make it any more wrong than it already is.

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Comment 6 Kamil Páral 2013-07-04 08:44:28 UTC
The whole wiki page claims to be "Out-of-date". I give up.