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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 19 Nov 2003 09:25:52 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 19 03:25:52 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1AMOat-0002eT-00; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:25:51 -0600 Received: from mail-mx3.uio.no ([129.240.10.44]) by pat.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AMOas-0006sW-Qm for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:25:50 +0100 Received: from saruman.uio.no ([129.240.201.202]) by mail-mx3.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AMOaq-0001jf-1h; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:25:48 +0100 Received: from pre by saruman.uio.no with local (Exim 2.12 #7) id 1AMOap-0002TP-00; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:25:47 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: grub-installer: Should enable serial console on serial line installs From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:25:47 +0100 X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have questions about this scanning X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_11_15 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_11_15 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Package: grub-installer Version: 0.24 Severity: important When installing using a serial line console, grub-installer should enable the serial line console at boot time when installed. This is from a installation report: I mentioned that I was on a serial console. I had to use the installer as a rescue again in order to get a shell so I could add the boot parameters back into the grub configuration file: console=ttyS0,9600n8. Could this not be saved from the inital boot parameters and applied to the config? Or at least ask about adding it? The ability to add these parmeters in could be critical in installs such as this. And since the first reboot is a critical configuration step (base-config), not having access +like this could i potentially break the install. As far as I see, there is no code in grub-installer to detect a serial console, and no way to pass the extra parameter into grub-install or update-grub. There is code in lilo-installer to support serial console. # Use a serial console if current default console is a serial port. # default console is last listed defconsole=$(sed -e 's/.*console=/console=/' /proc/cmdline) if echo "${defconsole}" | grep -q console=ttyS; then PORT=$(echo "${defconsole}" | sed -e 's%^console=ttyS%%' -e 's%,.*%%') SPEED=$(echo "${defconsole}" | sed -e 's%^console=ttyS[0-9]\+,%%' -e 's% .*%%') SERIAL="${PORT},${SPEED}" db_subst lilo-installer/serial-console PORT "ttyS${PORT}" db_subst lilo-installer/serial-console SPEED "${SPEED}" db_input medium lilo-installer/serial-console || [ $? -eq 30 ] db_go || true fi [...] if [ "${SERIAL}" ]; then echo "serial=${SERIAL}" >> /target/etc/lilo.conf fi [...] if [ "${SERIAL}" ]; then echo " append=\"console=ttyS${SERIAL}\"" >> /target/etc/lilo.conf fi Perhaps this code should be generalized, and moved into rootskel? We could set some cdebconf template variables to flag that the install is a serial line, set the port device and the speed, and let the {grub,lilo}-installer use these values. --------------------------------------- Received: (at 221602-done) by bugs.debian.org; 18 Jul 2004 23:12:42 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 18 16:12:42 2004 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from trofast.sesse.net [129.241.93.32] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1BmKpm-0003Oc-00; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:12:42 -0700 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BmKpk-0001R9-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:12:40 +0200 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 01:12:40 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 221602 closed by grub-installer 0.51 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.6 on a i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPAMBUGNUMSUBJ autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2004_03_25 X-Spam-Level: As far as I can see, grub-installer 0.51 added serial console support, but forgot to close bug #221602 ("grub-installer: Should enable serial console on serial line"), so I'm closing it now. A 242 day old bug squashed, hooray! :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]