Support serial-port based install
Bug #1770962 reported by
Mark Shuttleworth
This bug affects 15 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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subiquity |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since we have all the benefits of a full live environment, it would be good to support a serial port based install experience. This bug serves as a placeholder for that work.
I think the key pieces would be:
* offer boot loader menu on serial as well as console
* perhaps have some mechanism to choose ttyS0 / ttyS1 ?
* have a boot loader menu entry which puts console=ttySx in the kernel parameters?
* make sure that subiquity works in VT100?
Changed in subiquity: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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This mostly works already (or did, I haven't tested it in a while), you "just" need to make sure the right console= tty$whatever is on the kernel command line. Unfortunately when I talked to people about this, the consensus seemed to be that there is no way to know in general where the serial console is. If you can get to isolinux or grub you can add it yourself but if you can get to those you can probably install on tty1 anyway.