Install with serial console

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:

> On Do, Mai 21, 2015 at 09:53:56 -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > --- isolinux.orig/isolinux.cfg  2012-12-05 21:24:18.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ isolinux/isolinux.cfg       2012-08-22 20:32:03.000000000 +0200
> > > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
> > >  # D-I config version 2.0
> > > +serial 0 115200
> > > +console 0
> > >  include menu.cfg
> > >  default vesamenu.c32
> > >  prompt 0
> > > -timeout 0
> > >  ui gfxboot bootlogo
> > >
> >
> > I think all you're missing is to remove that "ui gfxboot bootlogo" line
> :)
> >
> > >From there however, you'll probably just have a prompt; so to boot you
> will
> > need to explicitly type 'server-serial' to boot that option.
>
> Thanks Mathieu, that did the trick!
>
> Now I stumbled on the next problem: when I add console=ttyS0,9600n8 to do
> the
> install with serial console, d-i starts asking questions again:
>
>    [!!] Choose language
>
>    Please choose the language used for the installation process. This
>    language will be the default language for the final system.
>
>    Choose a language:
>           C
>           English
>
>      <Go Back>
>
> Please note that I am offered only "C" and "English" here, while without
> the console=ttyS0,9600n8 setting, I can preseed german locale without any
> problems, and I am not asked this question at all.
>
> Any ideas on this?
>

If by preseeding you meant you were picking German early on in the
graphical splash, then you can achieve the same by also adding
"language=de" on the command-line, or having it in a preseed file (which
means however you'll need to pass "auto=true" so that it gets read early).


Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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