Hi! > When append an console option like: > console=ttyS0,115200n8 > and close vga by > vga=off > > We can redirect the installer output with serial cable. > So we can see the installer interface with minicom or SecureCRT. > > For most keys, it seems works well, while when press > arrow keys "up"/"down"/"left"/"right", > they are recognized as 'ESC' key.
We are seeing this issue on sparc64 now as well when using a serial console for the installation. Using the arrow keys in the serial console leads to random key presses (not sure whether it's <ESC> or <RETURN> here), it did work fine in the past. The images built in May, 2016 work fine: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2016-05-04/ The images built in March, 2017, don't: > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/debian-cd/2017-03-14/ Please note that we have to set TERM=linux on the kernel command line to get a usable serial console at all. Without setting TERM to "linux", the text is all garbage. I will file a separate bug for that. My suspicion is that both issues are related to Roger's patch to add GNU screen support in debian-installer. We have a sparc64 porterbox available which Roger - or anyone who would like to work on this - can use for test installations (a different one than notker.debian.net which is just for general porter work). Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
