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Bug #528560 [debian-installer] debian (lenny) installer via serial console does
not support hardware flow control (for serial over lan)
Bug reassigned from package 'debian-installer' to 'busybox-udeb'.
> thanks
Stoppi
reassign 528560 busybox-udeb
thanks
Hello,
Frans Pop, le Wed 13 May 2009 21:29:11 +0200, a écrit :
> The hardware control issue might possibly be a bug/limitation of busybox.
> Just a wild guess though.
Which was correct. Here is a trivial patch that fixes it.
Samuel
--- init/init.c.original
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> > Have you tried booting with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text?
>
> No, I was not aware of the availability of this mode. On Centos, you
> use "linux text" to boot a text mode installer that works well on vt100
> consoles. Maybe the menu should hint the us
: debian (lenny) installer via serial console does not
support hardware flow control (for serial over lan)
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> As with many SOL implementations, the service processor needs to use
> H/W flow control to avoid the display of scrambled charac
On Wednesday 13 May 2009, Isabelle, Francois wrote:
> As with many SOL implementations, the service processor needs to use
> H/W flow control to avoid the display of scrambled character on the
> console. Especially on "dialog/ncurses" applications that use a lot of
> escape characters to display
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20090123lenny1_amd64
This is a not so "special" setup, even though it's not the typical desktop
configuration.
- the board does not have a video device
- the serial console is not physically accessible
- the board supports an IPMI service processor with
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