Thanks to all that chimed in. I got it figured out.
It all depends on how you ssh into the guest to finish the installation. If
you ssh from a graphical environment it will set to the TERM=xterm-256-color,
this will result in TERM=dumb being put on the kernel line after the install
because of this code in the /usr/share/YaST2/modules/BootArch.rb
elsif Arch.s390
termparm = if ENV["TERM"] == "linux"
"TERM=linux console=ttyS0 console=ttyS1"
else
"hvc_iucv=8 TERM=dumb"
end
If I ssh in from a text console...say tty2, it will set the TERM=linux during
the install because of this code that was added in 2012: This will result in
TERM=linux set on the kernel line after the install.
Thu Jun 28 14:36:08 CEST 2012 - [email protected]
- set TERM=linux for 2nd stage services, to keep ncurses nice
(bnc#768356)
- 2.22.9
So the mystery is solved.
Dell Harris
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