Re: [virt-tools-list] problems with domain installation

[Cole Robinson <crobinso redhat com>]

On 12/14/2009 02:26 AM, Tomas Macek wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hmm, I just tried this and reproduced your failure. However, changing
>> the extra args from '-x console=/dev/ttyS0' to just '-x console=ttyS0'
>> fixed it for me. Sorry I mentioned the incorrect args on IRC yesterday,
>> hopefully the above fix helps you out.
>>
> 
> Thank you very much! This made the job! The "-x console=ttyS0" is the
> proper variant for this option :)
> I tried this with Debian Etch and Fedora 12. The Fedora 12's Anaconda
> failed with traceback, Debian finished the installation well, but I've
> forget to redirect the output from the system and now it's unreachable :))
> 
> But the things are now OK - I'm able to install in text console and
> that's great. Maybe this example could be a part of manual page...
> 
> I've also tried to pass the "-x console=ttyS0" when installing from ISO
> image from the disk. This does not work - I know it should not work,
> because of the manual "Additional kernel command line arguments to pass
> to the installer when performing a guest install from "--location".
> I'm I somehow able to pass the kernel commands and so redirect the
> output to ttyS0 when installing from ISO image from the disk?
> 

The only way to do it is to manually edit files in the iso to add kernel
command line arguments. It's a pain.

- Cole