Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 14167
Serial Installation Failure
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Red Hat Linux 6.0 allowed a serial install by modifying the boot disk to timeout and answer: boot: linux serial This was no longer available in 6.1 and 6.2. Will it be supported in future versions of Red Hat Linux?
One of the main perks of having a serial installation method is building server systems. It drops the cost of the server by several hundereds of dollers. That money can be used on something that the end-user can use (e.g. RAM). To use the serial terminal installation method it is not necessary to have a serial terminal (use minicom and a null modem cable). The old serial terminal install didn't give you a command prompt at com1 like the SPARC version does. If the installation method becomes supported again you might want to make it similar to the SPARC version and echo the following line into the inittab file. S0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt100
Brock please verify serial installs work with current development tree.
hmmm ... I believe the "linux serial" option may be obsoleted ... do you have any luck using: boot: linux text console=ttyS0,9600n8 (verified and tested i386 NFS install using "linux text console=ttyS0,9600n8" using the Pinstripe public beta ...)
please reopen this bug if I have misdiagnosed your problem, or if youu have other information on it ... thanks for your report!