Package: debian-installer Version: 20070308etch2 Severity: important If an install takes place via a serial console (e.g. by passing console=/dev/ttyS0 via the d-i boot loader), d-i then configures grub to use serial console output.
On machines with "serial BIOS" support, grub then fails to boot, and no output is seen from the serial port. This occurs, because the BIOS is copying information from the VGA text buffer to the serial port, and this interferes with grub's use of the serial port. Once the kernel has been loaded, and it switches to protected mode, the BIOS VGA -> serial copying code stops, and the boot proceeds via the serial console as expected. An option to supress the grub serial output would fix this problem (which probably also applys to the use of lilo). This behaviour has been observed on an Intel SR1500 machine, but I've observed the same behaviour in the past on multiple different x86 machines. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
