Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/06/11 17:09, Paul Lettington wrote: >> On 30/06/11 04:04, Martin McCormick wrote: >>> It appears that the procedure to start the serial >>> console has changed. >>> >>> Can I boot the CDROM in serial console mode as before? >> I had to do this recently to install on a serial-only virtual machine, >> and found that I had to modify the CD to present anything over the >> serial port. I don't know if I was doing something wrong and it should >> have been possible with a stock CD, but this worked for me. >> >> These are the notes I made while doing it, you should substitute the >> 6.0.1a version for whatever is current when you do it. > > Are you certain the advice you gave a blind person is accurate??
Yes, I am certain that what I said in my email is accurate - which is that it was the procedure I followed when I modified the CD image to use a serial console for the installer, and that doing so worked for me. However I am not certain that this is the best or only way to do it, and I even said as much in my original email. > All your instructions do is hard code what can be done at the cli or > through pre-seeding - with an added difficulty and time factor. I've not used pre-seeding before, so I may be mistaken about its capabilities. Are you saying that it can be used to change the console for the installer when booting from a CD, without modifying the CD at all? If so, I would find that most useful. > Did you try to enter "install console=ttyS0,9600n8" at the *CLI*?? What CLI would I enter this at? As I said in my original email, I was using a serial-only virtual machine and saw nothing over the serial console using the stock CD image. There is no other console that I would be able to type that in to. > I just installed from debian-6.0.1a-i386-kde-CD-1.iso *without* > modifying the CD, using a serial console. > > NOTE: serial console install is the usual method for xen builds - and > we've *never* had a need to rebuild the iso. I would be interested to know the details of how you did that. I am using KVM rather than XEN, but I don't believe it would be much different. In case I was being foolish when I first did it, I have spun up a new headless VM just now using an unmodified CD image, as follows: --- # virt-install --nographics -r 128 -n testvm --disk path=/tmp/testvm,size=5,bus=virtio -c /home/paul/iso/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-netinst.iso Starting install... Creating storage file testvm | 5.0 GB 00:00 Creating domain... | 0 B 00:00 Connected to domain testvm Escape character is ^] --- It is now sat like that, with the serial port of the VM attached to my terminal and I am seeing no output. It has been like that for several minutes now. Using my modified iso, I see output from the installer straight away. Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0c76d2.6020...@plett.co.uk
