On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 12:44 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/26/2016 01:11 AM, waz0wski wrote: >> - no login presented on ldom console -- I see init messages[3], but no login >> prompt. workaround: install openssh-server from chroot before reboot > > After another user on the list saw the same issue, I now realize your > problem. You need to pass "console=ttyS0,115200,8n1" on the kernel > command line to actually activate login on the serial console. > > This affects all versions of Debian, not just sparc64. Maybe we could > change the defaults here.
I'm not sure about making it as a system defaults for all the arches, but we could make it as default on sparc64 somewhere in postinstall scripts in debian-installer.