Bug 928269

Summary:	Warning: 'serial' is deprecated and has been removed.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jan Stancek <jstancek>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Will Woods <wwoods>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	jburke, mbanas, mkovarik, rvokal
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Description Jan Stancek 2013-03-27 09:49:23 UTC

Description of problem:
I'm getting following warning about 'serial' option:
dracut-cmdline[67]: Warning: 'serial' is deprecated and has been removed. 
dracut-cmdline[67]: Warning: To change the console use 'console=' instead. 

which according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options is the only way to "Carry over console settings to the installed system"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-18.37.11-13.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start installation with 'serial'
  
Actual results:
warning

Expected results:
no warning, 'serial' option supported

Additional info:

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2013-03-27 13:15:53 UTC

The documentation needs to be updated, not the serial option.

Comment 3 Jan Stancek 2013-03-27 13:47:55 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> The documentation needs to be updated, not the serial option.

Is there a replacement for serial? For example, we currently have "console=ttyS0,115200 serial" on command line and serial console works during installation and also after first boot (including grub).

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2013-03-27 21:09:17 UTC

Just remove 'serial' and you should be fine...

Comment 5 Jan Stancek 2013-03-27 21:49:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Just remove 'serial' and you should be fine...

Without 'serial', serial console doesn't work after reboot:

# cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.8.0-0.40.el7.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/rhel_intel--waimeabay--hedt--01-root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 crashkernel=auto rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=rhel_intel-waimeabay-hedt-01/swap vconsole.keymap=us rd.lvm.lv=rhel_intel-waimeabay-hedt-01/root rhgb quiet

# cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 $([ -x /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param ] && /usr/sbin/rhcrashkernel-param || :) rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=rhel_intel-waimeabay-hedt-01/swap vconsole.keymap=us rd.lvm.lv=rhel_intel-waimeabay-hedt-01/root rhgb quiet"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt"

Comment 6 Will Woods 2013-04-11 17:38:37 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Without 'serial', serial console doesn't work after reboot

Confirmed in testing here. Should be fixed in this commit:

  https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/anaconda.git/commit/?id=0b64177

From the commit message, here's the intended behavior:

  * "serial" is deprecated and ignored; try "console=ttyS0" instead.
  * If you use "console=XXX" it will be preserved in the installed system.
  * If multiple "console=XXX" args are used, the *last* one is preserved.

Comment 8 Michal Kovarik 2014-02-04 09:40:01 UTC

Verified on anaconda-19.31.50-1, serial option is ignored. "console" is preserved in the installed system.

Comment 9 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:44:57 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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