From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Description of problem: After network installation, the installer should create the serial terminal entries (extracted from the pxelinux.cfg/default file) and appending them to the kernel boot line in /boot/grub/grub.conf i.e., adding "console=ttyS1,9600". If this is not accomplished then the system after reboot will hang indefinitely in a blank window of the serial console or will not display any boot messages to the serial console until the login prompt appear by running /sbin/agetty in /etc/inittab. The default entry I used: label lr4b2 kernel r4b2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz append acpi=off ksdevice=eth0 console=ttyS1,9600n8 load_ramdisk=1 network ks=nfs:10.1.162.7:/home/pxeboot/sqa/r4b2/ks1.cfg initrd=r4b2/images/pxeboot/initrd.img The ks1.cfg I used: install langsupport en_US lang en_US keyboard us mouse generic3ps/2 --device psaux timezone --utc America/Los_Angeles rootpw abc123 zerombr yes bootloader --location=mbr nfs --server 10.1.162.7 --dir /home/pxeboot/sqa/r4b2 clearpart --linux part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 64 part swap --size 1024 part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow network --bootproto dhcp --device eth0 auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --disabled text skipx reboot %packages @ Everything %pre %post Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.1.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. proceed to do a pxe-install using provided 'default' entry and ks1.cfg file. 2. after installation, system will reboot 3. telnet to the serial terminal: either nothing will be displayed or no boot messages will be displayed until the login prompt appear. Actual Results: no display of serial console outputs Expected Results: display of serial console outputs Additional info: The workaround is to boot the system in rescue mode then chroot /mnt/sysimage, then edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to add "console=ttyS1,9600" to the kernel boot line.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 137971 ***
adding 'serial' to the /pxeboot.cfg/default file solved the problem ! e.g., label lr4b2 kernel r4b2/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz append acpi=off ksdevice=eth0 serial console=ttyS1,9600n8 ...
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.