Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Punit Agrawal
[ cc'ing Alper ] john doe writes: [...] > The below command get me directly to the language selection screen which > I belaeve is what you want?: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=debian.img,format=raw -m 1024 -boot d > -nographic -cdrom debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso -kernel > vm

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Punit Agrawal
Alper Nebi Yasak writes: > On 12/05/2020 13:02, Punit Agrawal wrote: >> The above parameters do not launch the installer from the iso here. I am >> not quite sure what the right arguments are. I wonder if >> "root=" to the kernel will do the trick. Will give that a >> try. > > When I try: > > $ q

Bug#907343: Same issue with dual-boot Fedora 32 and Ubuntu 20.04

2020-05-12 Thread Richard Fearn
As Fedora 32 uses Boot Loader Specification (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault), linux-boot-prober on Ubuntu 20.04 finds Fedora 32 kernels via the 90fallback script (/usr/lib/linux-boot-probes/mounted/90fallback), which just looks for kernel files on the filesystem: $

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Bjørn Mork
Geert Stappers writes: > Virtual Machines (Qemu, KVM, Xen, ... ) and OCI containters ( "Docker > images") are the new serial port only computers. > > In other words: There are many servers without video hardware. (Un)fortunately, depending how you look at it, running a remote qemu machine with f

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 04:20:58PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > The lack of serial console support is a very long standing bug in the > Debian installer. See for example https://bugs.debian.org/309223 > opened 15 years ago, and closed 10 years ago without any attempt to fix > the problem. :-(

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Bjørn Mork
john doe writes: > Unless I'm missing something, it does work for me with something like: > > -nographic -cdrom *.iso -kernel kernel-path -append > "console=ttyS0,115200n8 ..." > > > '-serial' might also be needed. Try repeating that when installing on bare metal without a monitor. The lack of

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 12/05/2020 13:02, Punit Agrawal wrote: The above parameters do not launch the installer from the iso here. I am not quite sure what the right arguments are. I wonder if "root=" to the kernel will do the trick. Will give that a try. When I try: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom *.iso -nographic -v

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread john doe
On 5/12/2020 12:02 PM, Punit Agrawal wrote: john doe writes: On 5/12/2020 11:36 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote: john doe writes: [...] This does not start the Debian installer. The issue reported is that the grub shipping with DI does not output to serial console and hence can't be used with "-

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Punit Agrawal
john doe writes: > On 5/12/2020 11:36 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote: >> john doe writes: [...] >> This does not start the Debian installer. The issue reported is that the >> grub shipping with DI does not output to serial console and hence can't >> be used with "-nographic". It's maybe that the same

Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Punit Agrawal
john doe writes: > On 5/12/2020 11:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > Unless I'm missing something, it does work for me with something like: > > -nographic -cdrom *.iso -kernel kernel-path -append > "console=ttyS0,115200n8 ..." This does not start the Debian installer. The issue reported is t

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread john doe
On 5/12/2020 11:36 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote: john doe writes: On 5/12/2020 11:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: [...] Unless I'm missing something, it does work for me with something like: -nographic -cdrom *.iso -kernel kernel-path -append "console=ttyS0,115200n8 ..." This does not start the

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread john doe
On 5/12/2020 11:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: Control: reassign -1 debian-installer On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:32:51PM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote: Package: grub2 Grub does not output to serial port when running in a VM launched using Qemu when run as part of the Debian Installer. This prevents in

Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
Control: reassign -1 debian-installer On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:32:51PM +0900, Punit Agrawal wrote: > Package: grub2 > > Grub does not output to serial port when running in a VM launched using > Qemu when run as part of the Debian Installer. This prevents > installation of Debian in a VM when ru

Processed: Re: Bug#960390: x86_64: No serial port output

2020-05-12 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > reassign -1 debian-installer Bug #960390 [grub2] x86_64: No serial port output Bug reassigned from package 'grub2' to 'debian-installer'. Ignoring request to alter found versions of bug #960390 to the same values previously set Ignoring request to alter fixed versio

[PATCH] Rework SCRIPT detection

2020-05-12 Thread Philipp Hahn
Hello, the 4th positional argument to debootstrap is the script to use, which hat 2 annoying properties: 1. The current code always preferres the script named the same from "$DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR/scripts/" even when it exists in my current working directory - except I use an absolute path. >i