From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020326 Description of problem: A system using only a serial console fails to boot after install when using grub as the boot loader. This issue is present in 7.2.93 (Skipjack). How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform install from the serial console 2. Choose grub as boot loader Actual Results: I believe that grub is loading, but since it is not configured during install to output to the serial console (like lilo) I get no output. The problem causing it not to boot is that it is waiting for input and grub will never time out. Also the xpm splash file may be causing problems with the serial port. Expected Results: Grub should be configure to output to the serial console.
It should timeout since we're setting the timeout to 10 in the grub config and seems to work for me. Are you sure it's not hanging anywhere else in boot? (setting up grub to use the serial console wasn't done in 7.2 either, and we're past the point of feature changes)
The generated "timeout=10" doesn't work for us at all. One or more things are wrong. The grub info doc says to use "timeout 10" - notice no equal sign. However, I think that this will still - NOT - work for a serial console. To get a serial console to work I had to use something like the following (ttyS0): default 0 timeout 10 serial --unit=0 --speed=38400 terminal --timeout=10 serial Notice that there are two different timeout values. One "timeout" and another "--timeout=nn" associated with the terminal line. Without the "--timeout=nn" being set, and no serial console connected, it would never boot for us since the code has a "-1", or something less than 0, in the "to" (timeout) field.
This is not a regression from 7.2 and requires a few more changes than I'd like to make this late to get "right" (I need to be able to determine where your serial console is as well as what the settings are for baud and parity). Deferring to do properly for the next release.
Fixed in CVS
Fix confirmed with re0903.2 tree.
Time tracking values updated