Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread lars nooden
On 10/3/12, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:10:02PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: >> Sorry. There's a typo, intited should be initrd. > > Ahh! OOPs didn't read whole thread. > > Still, it does show the reason why you should copy 'n' paste instead of > laboriously typing it out by

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 12:10:02PM +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: > On 10/1/12 11:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Sorry. There's a typo, intited should be initrd. Ahh! OOPs didn't read whole thread. Still, it does show the reason why you should copy 'n' paste instead of laboriously typing it out by ha

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:58:25PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > turn into this: > append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- ^^ > console=ttyS2,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS2,19200 > > Now all seems to be working. Weird. -- "If you're not careful, the news

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-02 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/1/12 11:58 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Turns out that the remote serial-over-ip terminal redirects COM3, and > shows up as ttys2, which makes this > >>> >>> debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/txt.cfg: >>> append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- >>> console=ttyS0,19200 ea

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot - SOLVED

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Turns out that the remote serial-over-ip terminal redirects COM3, and shows up as ttys2, which makes this debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/txt.cfg: append vga=788 inited=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz -- console=ttyS0,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,19200 turn into this: append vga=788

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Lars, Lars Noodén wrote: On 10/1/12 8:23 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash screen

Re: help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Lars Noodén
On 10/1/12 8:23 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial > terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to > the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash > screen via a remote KVM),

help using serial console w/ netboot

2012-10-01 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I'm trying to build a headless, remote server - using an IPMI serial terminal and PXEboot. The thing is, that I've got everything set up to the point that the install system is booting (I can see the splash screen via a remote KVM), but can't access it via a remote serial console.