RHEL5 Kickstart and serial console

[Adam Goodall]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ben
>Sent: 13 October 2009 10:03
>To: Discussion list about Kickstart
>Subject: Re: RHEL5 Kickstart and serial console

>Well, the above lines have worked for me on RHEL5.x up to current for
32 and
>64 bit on over 80 assorted machines (with only one serial port).
Perhaps if there's no ttyS1 on your boxes (being discovered as ttyS0)
then the install >isn't adding the necessary lines.

>Just a guess.

Thanks for the response Ben, I didn't think that the method would have
changed racically. On closer inspection it isn't actually fully setting
up the grub.conf in that it doesn't add the hiddenmenu option.

Its definitely not the numbering of the serial port as once the server
has booted I can add:
co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS1 19200 vt100-nav
To inittab, then run init q and the serial console comes back to life.

Still a little stumped as to what it could be.
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