Re: Anaconda patches

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 19:02, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 17:50, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > > Patch 1 fixes a problem with booting rescue mode on a serial console 
> > 
> > What problem do you see without this?  rescue mode is inherently text
> > mode and there's not really any special casing beyond that for serial
> > installs.
> 
> Well, except that it doesn't work. At least, I'm pretty sure I remember
> it being broken.

Well, unless you send --serial to anaconda, it will try to open /dev/tty3
virtual terminal as a log.  When you don't have a graphic console (in text
mode), /dev/tty3 doesn't exist.  The --serial option is given to anaconda
on serial installs, but not on rescue.

An alternate, and even preferable fix would be to have virtual terminals
work for serial ports.  This is possible and probably nicer, but requires
some more kernel hacking, and some agreement on what the serial control
sequence should be for switching, how to turn it off later so that ppp
connections don't change vtys, etc. All doable, but probably not so easy
as it sounds.  Probably this is why it doesn't exist.

		--Dean


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