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iso-image: add 'serial console' boot entry

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Prior to this commit, installation over serial console would requiring
manually having to modify the kernel modeline, as described in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/58198 .

This is unnecessarily fiddly, so this commit adds a syslinux boot
entry that has serial enabled.

GRUB already has a serial console entry:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/2c07a0800a76be01a3c255f39e21877a9a389f84/nixos/modules/installer/cd-dvd/iso-image.nix#L311-L317

Why 115200 bps? This is already used in other places, e.g. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/58196

I tested this change by building the image, booting the image, and
observing the boot process over serial:

    $ cd nixos/
    $ nix-build -A config.system.build.isoImage -I nixos-config=modules/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-minimal.nix default.nix
    $ sudo cp /nix/store/arcl702c3z8xlndlvnfplq9yhixjvs9k-nixos-20.09pre-git-x86_64-linux.iso/iso/nixos-20.09pre-git-x86_64-linux.iso /dev/sdb

    $ picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0
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Tom Fitzhenry
2020-12-22 16:16:15 +08:00
committed by Peter Hoeg
parent fb8f5df18f
commit 9d92c9d0a7
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@@ -143,6 +143,13 @@ let
LINUX /boot/${config.system.boot.loader.kernelFile}
APPEND init=${config.system.build.toplevel}/init ${toString config.boot.kernelParams} loglevel=7
INITRD /boot/${config.system.boot.loader.initrdFile}
# A variant to boot with a serial console enabled
LABEL boot-serial
MENU LABEL NixOS ${config.system.nixos.label}${config.isoImage.appendToMenuLabel} (serial console=ttyS0,115200n8)
LINUX /boot/${config.system.boot.loader.kernelFile}
APPEND init=${config.system.build.toplevel}/init ${toString config.boot.kernelParams} console=ttyS0,115200n8
INITRD /boot/${config.system.boot.loader.initrdFile}
'';
isolinuxMemtest86Entry = ''