Bug 978652

Summary: Update instructions for ensuring images present console output to all required devices.
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Reporter: Stephen Gordon <sgordon>
Component: doc-Installation_and_Configuration_GuideAssignee: Deepti Navale <dnavale>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 3.0CC: ggillies, mattdm, slong, sradvan
Target Milestone: z3Keywords: Documentation, Triaged
Target Release: 4.0   
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Description Stephen Gordon 2013-06-27 03:02:45 UTC 
Under bug # 886338 an instruction was added to the documentation for building a custom disk image indicating users should add these parameters to the kernel arguments to ensure console output is visible via nova, the dashboard, and anything else that might need to access it:


serial=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8

As it turns out in RHEL at least serial isn't a valid argument (or at least is a noop) and does nothing, current thinking is this should actually read:

console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 

This needs to be confirmed though.
Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2013-06-27 13:59:26 UTC 
Background: Graeme indicates that the info in the prior bug came from http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/100/how-do-i-connect-a-serial-terminal-to-a-kvm-instance, and that in turn traces back to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507650#29, which I suspect is simply in error.
Comment 5 Deepti Navale 2014-01-17 03:42:36 UTC 
Hi Matthew, 

Can you please review this update using the link in comment 4?

Thanks,
Deepti
Comment 6 Deepti Navale 2014-03-21 01:21:32 UTC 
Hi Graeme, 

Can you please review this update using the link in comment 4?

Thanks,
Deepti
Comment 7 Graeme Gillies 2014-03-21 01:25:19 UTC 
This information looks good and correct to me

Regards,

Graeme
Comment 8 Deepti Navale 2014-03-21 01:33:44 UTC 
Build: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform-Installation_and_Configuration_Guide-4-web-en-US-4-71.el6eng

Link: http://documentation-devel.engineering.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_OpenStack_Platform/4/html-single/Installation_and_Configuration_Guide/index.html#Building_a_Custom_Disk_Image