Bug#416310: marked as done (grub-installer: serial console not properly enabled)

Your message dated Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:56:18 +0000 with message-id <E1IbXBS-0007lt-RV@ries.debian.org> and subject line Bug#416310: fixed in grub-installer 1.22etch1 has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: grub-installer
Version: 1.22
Severity: normal

i booted debian-installer with "console=ttyS0,38400" using within a qemu environment with the "-nographic" option:

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Mar 26 18:11:59 kernel: Kernel command line: preseed/file=/cdrom/simple-cdd/default.preseed console=ttyS0,38400 vga=normal initrd=/install.386/initrd.gz -- BOOT_IMAGE=/install.386/vmlinuz

but serial support was not properly enabled for grub or the console itself on the installed system... (there was a getty started appropriately, thankfully)

/boot/grub/menu.lst contained the following two lines at the very top:

serial --unit=0 --speed=38400 --word=console=ttyS0,38400 --parity= --stop=1 terminal serial

i tried various combintions of removing --word, --parity and --stop options to serial, but it required removing both the --word and --parity options, so the line i got working was:

serial --unit=0 --speed=38400 --stop=1

it also workd without the "--stop=1" part. i don't know what --word is supposed to add, and maybe --parity should only be added if it's set to something?

in order to get linux to recognize the serial console, i had to manually add "console=ttyS0,38400" to the kopt line, and then run update-grub:

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# kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro console=ttyS0,38400

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Source: grub-installer
Source-Version: 1.22etch1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of grub-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

grub-installer_1.22etch1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.22etch1.dsc grub-installer_1.22etch1.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.22etch1.tar.gz grub-installer_1.22etch1_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/g/grub-installer/grub-installer_1.22etch1_amd64.udeb

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached.

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Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 416310@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software pp.
Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> (supplier of updated grub-installer package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:12:01 +0200
Source: grub-installer
Binary: grub-installer
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.22etch1
Distribution: stable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> Description:
 grub-installer - Install GRUB on a hard disk (udeb) Closes: 416310
Changes:
 grub-installer (1.22etch1) stable; urgency=low  .
   [ Frans Pop ]

• Improve code that sets serial console parameters. Closes: #416310. Changes based on a patch by Alex Owen. Files: 3a10a7e59d6491ee5c03c0fc138272e1 765 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.22etch1.dsc 6f262c2792a0aabc0a8b5a4652e9fff9 123052 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.22etch1.tar.gz 6036e8cab5b4cfbda6c120d45722a4a0 109722 debian-installer standard grub-installer_1.22etch1_amd64.udeb Package-Type: udeb

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