Debian install over console

[Russell Reiter]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Neil Watson
<tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 09:57:03AM -0500, Russell Reiter wrote:
>>
>> What about the baud rate in this line?


Try changing 115200n8 to 115200 n8 1 somehow.


>>
>> --nographics --autostart -x "console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8"
>
> I'm not sure what you mean.  I changed to single quotes but that did not
> help.  virt-install log shows this:
>
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:192) Launched with
> command line:
> /usr/bin/virt-install -n nwtest --description Test host -r 512 -vcpus 1
> --os-type=linux --os-variant=debiansqueeze --disk
> /srv/virtual/nwtest,device=disk,bus=virtio,size=3 --network
> bridge=br0,model=virtio --nographics --autostart -l
> http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
> -x console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:216) Requesting
> libvirt URI default
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (cli:218) Received
> libvirt URI qemu:///system
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:473)
> Requesting virt method 'hvm', hv type 'default'.
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:795)
> Received virt method 'hvm'
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:796)
> Hypervisor name is 'kvm'
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (virt-install:330)
> parse_disk: returning {'format': None, 'bus': 'virtio', 'readOnly': False,
> 'volInstall': None, 'path': '/srv/virtual/nwtest', 'device': 'disk',
> 'volName': None, 'conn': <libvirt.virConnect instance at 0x1962950>, 'size':
> 3.0, 'driverCache': None, 'shareable': False, 'sparse': True}
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] DEBUG (VirtualDisk:864) Path
> '/srv/virtual' is target for pool 'neil'. Creating volume 'nwtest'.
> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] ERROR (cli:196) Only one
> install method (--pxe, --location, --cdrom, --import) can be used
>
>
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