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Bug 84356 - "terminal serial" in grub.conf ignored when splashimage used
Summary: "terminal serial" in grub.conf ignored when splashimage used
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: grub
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Glen Foster
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Depends On:
Blocks: 79579 CambridgeTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-14 22:01 UTC by Roland McGrath
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-08-06 20:32:18 UTC
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Description Roland McGrath 2003-02-14 22:01:38 UTC 
Description of problem:

My grub.conf does "terminal serial" after the appropriate "serial"
command for my setup.  If "splashimage=" appears after "terminal serial"
in grub.conf, it boots using the VGA console instead of the serial port.
If "splashimage=" is absent or appears before "terminal serial",
then it correctly boots on the serial port.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

grub-0.93-4


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up serial console
2. put "terminal serial" in grub.conf, leave splashimage= there
3. boot; see it use the vga console
    
Actual results:

Uses the VGA console.


Expected results:

Uses the serial console.

Additional info:

Worked right in Psyche.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-05 04:01:39 UTC 
Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to
make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.

Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc.
They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/)
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Comment 3 Roland McGrath 2006-08-06 20:32:18 UTC 
Seems to be fixed, using grub-0.97-5
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