Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-14 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 07:27:32AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > If it can be added back without seriously complicating things, that'd > > > be fine. I do think that vesamenu is right out f

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-13 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: > Or is there a way I can do this myself using qemu? In that case I could > probably do it myself. You can use something like -serial telnet:5000,server,nowait , and then telnet localhost 5000 to see the serial console. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signatu

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > If it can be added back without seriously complicating things, that'd > > be fine. I do think that vesamenu is right out for serial console, > > but have not actually checked that. > > I ha

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > If it can be added back without seriously complicating things, that'd be > fine. I do think that vesamenu is right out for serial console, but have > not actually checked that. I have, and I was pretty suprised: you have a real text menu

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Owen
If the prompt.cfg could be split in to using an include so that the menu and timeout and prompt lines were seperate from the display and f1,f2,f3 lines then I think I have a cunning plan... I will e-mail/bug report again if I get a working system. Thanks for your thoughts. Alex Owen 2008/7/1

Re: i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Owen wrote: > I see that d-i is now using the vesamenu for i386 netboot and has > dropped the serial pxelinux configuration. > If I were to produce a clean patch to re-enable production of a serial > config might it be included for lenny? > > I take it the vesamenu config does not work over a

i386 pxelinux.cfg no-longer serial friendly!

2008-07-12 Thread Alex Owen
Hello, I see that d-i is now using the vesamenu for i386 netboot and has dropped the serial pxelinux configuration. If I were to produce a clean patch to re-enable production of a serial config might it be included for lenny? I take it the vesamenu config does not work over a serial port? Thanks