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?
>>
>> --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

Try removing n8 from the string. This will set the transmission rate
parameter. Perhaps the virtual volume gets its sizing from this
number.

<snip the middle>


> [Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:05:09 virt-install 11889] ERROR (cli:196)

This looks like a Common Language Interface error. Perhaps the TR
function of some code is clobbering the space that really should exist
between 115200 and N8. I don't know if the 1 is really necessary after
the N8 to set the primary serial device.

Only one
> install method (--pxe, --location, --cdrom, --import) can be used

Error messages are often cryptic. Perhaps the baud rate is defaulting
to 9600 and it's evaluating the conflicting data incorrectly.

>
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