From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-13 i686) Description of problem: When kickstart-ing a machine over serial console the entire installaion takes place without any output on the serial console. This happens even if the installation kernel is started with "append serial console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make a kickstart floppy with serial console defined 2.boot your machine with that floppy 3.listen on the serial port and watch the (not appearing) output from anaconda Actual Results: When the installation kernel boots, it outputs messages over the serial console but anaconda does not output anything. Expected Results: I would like to see the anaconda progress report on the serial console. Additional info: The anaconda output is redirected into a file locally on the machine you install. I would like to see some sort of progress report over the serial console line in order to detect (e.g.) hanging installations etc. This is actually not a bug because that never worked and never was supposed to work.
Deferring for consideration in a future release.
This problem can be fixed by simply reversing the order of the "console" definitions in the kernel append line: "append serial console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400" works just fine. -- Alf.
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