We have discussed this issues but were unfortunately not able to come up with a universal and robust enough solution for the Fedora 25 time frame. There is no good way how to decide which console should be used as there are devices that have both a serial console and graphical output and users could be using either of them.

Possible workaround for F25 are:

Setting the console to /dev/tty1 via boot command line parameters.

Using the Fedora arm image installer[0] to enable password-less login for root, logging in via tty2, setting a root password and then disabling the Initial Setup service (systemctl disable initial-setup.service).

Or to make the system available over network as described in the first question of the F24 installation FAQ[1] (How do I use Fedora ARM when I have no serial cable or display?).


For Fedora 26 the best solution (as suggested by Peter Robinson) seems to be to identify what consoles the user might be using and then display a prompt on them asking the user if the given console should be used to initial system configuration. Once the user confirms the prompt on one console then Initial Setup will be started on it & the other prompt on different consoles would be deactivated. According to systemd developers/maintainers a generator unit looks like the best candidate for launching the prompts.

[0] https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F24/Installation#FAQ

The same issue here. It is quite inconvenient. If I were not already 100% decided for Fedora, I would rather try another distro than debug a frozen boot process. And it is yet one more manual task with each installation.
Maybe, as a workaround, arm-image-installer could offer to disable initial-setup.

> Maybe, as a workaround, arm-image-installer could offer to disable
> initial-setup.

I have considered offering the ability to set all those bits via that utility but the people that maintain it don't have the cycles. Feel free to assist. You can work around it for text based installs (such as minimal) by using that that tool to explicitly set a console using --console

Moving to rawhide to track feature for F-26

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Martin what's the status for this for F-26?b

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