[bug #27336] regression: no longer able to specify both vga and serial console

[Marc Haber]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27336>

                 Summary: regression: no longer able to specify both vga and
serial console
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: zugschlus
            Submitted on: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:25:26 PM CEST
                Category: Terminal
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: SVN
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

In Debian Bug #506707 (http://bugs.debian.org/506707),  Miquel van
Smoorenburg <address@hidden> writes:
|All of our servers have a serial console connection so that we
|can manage them remotely. Our supermicro servers also have
|a bios that supports serial connections.
|
|However sometimes you need to boot a machine while standing next
|to it, with a screen and keyboard  connected.
|
|For that we always used the following grub setting in menu.lst:
|
|  # Set serial to ttyS0,9600 and use both serial and vga console.
|  serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
|  terminal serial console
|
|It appear that with the new setup using /etc/default/grub there
|is no way to specify terminal serial AND terminal console.
|It's one of them, but not both.
|
|I think that for many servers like ours this is a serious
|regression of functionality.
|
|I hacked around it by putting the serial config in
|/etc/grub.d/02_somefile , but it would be nice if this could
|be fixed properly. I'd like to be able to use:
|
|GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0 --speed=9600"
|GRUB_TERMINAL="serial console"
|
|Mike.

I am forwarding this from the Debian BTS to yours to add a "me too". This is
a serious regression which will keep big sites using grub-legacy for a while.

Greetings
Marc





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