john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> writes: > On 5/12/2020 11:36 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote: >> john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> 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 issue is faced when >> installing on hardware with no display but I have not confirmed this. >> >> The aim is to be able to install debian in a VM using the iso images > > That is exactly what I'm doing! :) Thanks for clarifying. Sorry I misunderstood your reply. >>> -nographic -cdrom *.iso -kernel kernel-path -append >>> "console=ttyS0,115200n8 ..." > Okay, you want something working out of the box but note that what you > want is already possible if you use the proper arguments. 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=<rootfs_device>" to the kernel will do the trick. Will give that a try. > I did get what you were complaning about, I was simply providing a > workaround to get you going. I worked around this by using the graphical install and enabling serial output in the installed image but I think this can be made to work out-of-box and we shouldn't need a workaround. Fingers crossed.
