From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: When installing via a serial console, the shell and extra log output normally available on the virtual terminals (alt-f2, alt-f3, etc.) are not available. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-8.0-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install via serial console. Actual Results: No virtual terminals. Expected Results: No virtual terminals (but having them would be useful). Additional info: I've created a patch to the anaconda loader that will start the anaconda python script in screen if the console is a serial port (--serial).
Created attachment 93299 [details] Uses the screen utility to provide virtual terminals This patch modifies the anaconda loader to start the anaconda python script in screen if the console is a serial port (--serial). It also modifies the ramdisk build script to include screen and it library dependencies.
Not going to add this -- you can hit ctrl-z to get a shell during the install. Adding screen makes the size too much larger.