Bug 769047 - Install guide does not document "serial" option.
Summary: Install guide does not document "serial" option.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: install-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jack Reed
QA Contact: Ruediger Landmann
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Reported: 2011-12-19 18:36 UTC by Lars Kellogg-Stedman
Modified: 2013-06-17 05:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-04-26 04:30:41 UTC

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Description Lars Kellogg-Stedman 2011-12-19 18:36:33 UTC 
The Installation Guide (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/ch-Boot-x86.html) provides the following information regarding serial-port based installs:

  If you need to perform the installation in serial mode, type the following command:
  linux console=<device>

This is erroneous.  Without the "serial" option, Anaconda will attempt to display the text-mode interface on a virtual tty rather than on the serial port (even through the system console is using the serial port).
Comment 1 Jack Reed 2012-04-26 04:30:41 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this, Lars. Fortunately, I'm told that this has been fixed for F17 and the existing console option will work.
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