Ovirt devel - Nov 2008 - [PATCH appliance] Configure appliance to enable serial console for grub/kernel by default

Signed-off-by: Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com>
---
 ovirt-appliance.ks |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ovirt-appliance.ks b/ovirt-appliance.ks
index e34ab87..7ecfb6d 100644
--- a/ovirt-appliance.ks
+++ b/ovirt-appliance.ks
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ services --disabled=libvirtd,postgresql
--enabled=network,tgtd,nfs,iptables
 timezone --utc UTC
 text
 
-bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda
+bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append="console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200"
 # The following is the partition information you requested
 # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
 # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ lokkit
   # cleanup rpmdb to allow non-matching host and chroot RPM versions
   rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
 
+  # set up serial console
+  sed -i 's/hiddenmenu/hiddenmenu\nserial --unit=0 --speed=115200\nterminal
--timeout=5 serial console/' /boot/grub/grub.conf
+
   # The ace stuff.
   /sbin/chkconfig --level 35 ace on
   mkdir /etc/sysconfig/ace
-- 
1.6.0.3

ACK - excellent, this will help debugging firstboot errors
I can retire that qemu-nbd dance from
http://ovirt.org/page/TroubleShooting#Debugging_oVirt_Appliance_firstboot