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.
:-( > The bug has been carefully forward ported from syslinux to grub, keeping > the intended(?) non-working default. > > I believe most users have given up. After all, you rarely need to > install Debian more than once one a system. And you easily live with > having to modify the installer slightly. 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. Regards Geert Stappers Yes, I should provide patches ... -- Silence is hard to parse
