Bug#451710: grub: "No setup signature found" error message not shown on serial console

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:02:00PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-29
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when old grub code is trying to boot kernel 2.6.23.8, the error
> message "No setup signature found" is not visible on a serial console.
> This makes debugging just a tiny little bit harder (as in
> "impossible"), and I was lucky to have a second system with the same
> issue on a "real" KVM switch. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to
> pin down the issue at all.
> 
> Please check grub code to have all error messages printed to the
> console that is actually in use.

Already done for GRUB 2 (by design, it's not possible to print something to
an unused terminal unless you explicitly dig into the terminal list).

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Robert Millan

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