[Bug 590709] Re: Recovery menu doesn't show up on serial console

[Stéphane Graber]

Hi!

Can you give me more detail on the changes you had to do to your grub and init configuration to get the boot messages to display?
That should make it easier to replicate your current environment.

Also, it'd be great if you could try with Oneiric beta2 as it includes a
reworked friendly-recovery that's started in a different way than the
old one and so might not be affected by that bug anymore.

Thanks!

** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Recovery menu doesn't show up on serial console

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

  When booting recovery mode on a server with a serial console, the
  recovery menu never shows up, and no root shell or anything else is
  offered as an alternative.  You see some bootup messages from init
  scripts and the like, then nothing.

  If you plug in a VGA monitor you'll see the recovery menu and it works
  fine.  However, one of the main advantages of having a serial console
  is to be able to administer the servers in a potentially unmanned data
  center in a "out of band" fashion, so this is a big problem compared
  to the behaviour in Dapper for us at least.

  Tore

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