It may be worth mentioning that Debian's own debian-installer (at least
when I last used it) does detect when installation is being conducted
over serial and adds a line to inittab enabling serial logins. This
should perhaps be adapted to add a ttyS0.conf for Upstart.
During a serial Ubuntu install, the relevant configuration *is* added to
the generated grub.cfg (i.e. the GRUB menu will appear on the serial
line) but console=ttyS0,9600n8 (or whatever) is not appended to the
kernel line so boot messages will likewise be sent over serial. And,
crucially, since Upstart has not been instructed to start a getty,
serial logins are not possible.
A workaround until this is fixed is to install over serial, then upon
reboot temporarily edit GRUB's kernel line with
console=ttyS{port},{baud} and single for single user mode. Then add the
relevant .conf for Upstart, change /etc/default/grub to append the
correct console parameters to the kernel line by default, run update-
grub, and reboot. You should then be able to see all your boot messages
and log in.
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Ubuntu Server edition does not recognize serial console during
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