URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27336>
Summary: regression: no longer able to specify both vga and
serial console
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: zugschlus
Submitted on: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:25:26 PM CEST
Category: Terminal
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Feature Request
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: SVN
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
In Debian Bug #506707 (http://bugs.debian.org/506707), Miquel van
Smoorenburg <miqu...@cistron.nl> writes:
|All of our servers have a serial console connection so that we
|can manage them remotely. Our supermicro servers also have
|a bios that supports serial connections.
|
|However sometimes you need to boot a machine while standing next
|to it, with a screen and keyboard connected.
|
|For that we always used the following grub setting in menu.lst:
|
| # Set serial to ttyS0,9600 and use both serial and vga console.
| serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
| terminal serial console
|
|It appear that with the new setup using /etc/default/grub there
|is no way to specify terminal serial AND terminal console.
|It's one of them, but not both.
|
|I think that for many servers like ours this is a serious
|regression of functionality.
|
|I hacked around it by putting the serial config in
|/etc/grub.d/02_somefile , but it would be nice if this could
|be fixed properly. I'd like to be able to use:
|
|GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=9600"
|GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"
|
|Mike.
I am forwarding this from the Debian BTS to yours to add a "me too". This is
a serious regression which will keep big sites using grub-legacy for a while.
Greetings
Marc
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