Re: [atomic-devel] Bare metal installation without video display??

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 08/20/2018 07:48 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> See my reply interspersed.
> 
> On 08/20/2018 10:26 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
>> On 08/19/2018 10:50 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>>> My particular piece of bare metal seems to have enough memory, disk 
>>> space, Intel x86_64 architecture w/4 cores, ethernet nics, but it does 
>>> not have any video support.
>>>
>>> I can move data using ethernet, but user interaction during install must 
>>> go through a 115200n8 serial port.
>> Do you see the isolinux boot menu on the serial console? If so you just need
>> to edit the first entry and add console=ttyS0 to the kernel command line. 
> Thanks very much for your reply.
> 
> I don't get that far on the serial console. I think that dialog is being painted to a video frame buffer..
> 
> This is what I see on an attempt using a USB stick:
> 


could you try to add a "SERIAL" line to the isolinux/isolinux.cfg on your USB stick?
and see if that helps? I can try to do this at some point but I'm not at home right now.

Dusty