Here's a followup in case anyone else gets bit by this. The problem is in a Redhat patch to grub. See my bugzilla report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156836 for details. Basically putting a splashimage line in your grub.conf has the side-effect of disabling the menu on the serial console. It's hard to consider that anything but a bug. but as I said, I think it's in a fedora patch to grub, not the pristine grub source. P. On 05/19/05, Philip J. Hollenback wrote: > I submitted this a few weeks ago in the bug tracking system on the > grub homepage so apologies if posting here is a breach of etiquette. > > Anyway, my grub serial console isn't working, does anyone have any > ideas? This seems like a bug in grub unless I'm missing something: > > I have a system connected to a serial console and a display. OS is > Fedora Core 1 with the .93-7 grub rpm installed. My grub.conf: > > serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 > terminal --timeout=10 serial console > default=0 > timeout=15 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on selinux=0 vdso=0 > exec-shield=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-0.ti.4.fc1.img > title Fedora Core (2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=on selinux=0 vdso=0 > exec-shield=0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 > initrd /initrd-2.6.10-0.ti1.fc1.img > title Memtest86+ (1.55.1) > kernel /memtest86+-1.55.1 > > On boot, grub prints the 'press any key to continue' message on both > the serial console and the display, as expected. However, pressing a > key on the serial console does not have the intended result (which > would be for the menu to appear on the serial console). Instead, grub > stops printing 'press any key to continue' messages, waits a few > moments, then just starts booting the default image. For some reason, > the menu is not displayed and I can't pick a different boot image. > > This works fine on the display - pressing a key there results in the > menu appearing. > > I suspect this is related to the hiddenmenu or possibly this bug: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134029 > > Any idea why the menu is not displayed? As you can see, we aren't > using hiddenmenu. > > Thanks, > P. > -- Philip J. Hollenback Telemetry Investments [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub