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installer test: Fix grub extraConfig syntax #85832

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@benley benley commented Apr 23, 2020

Motivation for this change

It looks like terminal_output.serial is incorrect, according to the grub documentation:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Serial-terminal.html

Related PR: #79406

cc @nh2

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It looks like `terminal_output.serial` is incorrect, according to the
grub documentation:

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Serial-terminal.html

Related PR: NixOS#79406
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It looks right to me.

It would be interesting to know why this was never noticed.

@edolstra in a65b5ec, was the In the installer test, redirect GRUB output to the serial port. intended for debugging purposes when something went wrong? Do you know whether it ever worked?

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flokli commented Apr 23, 2020

I also have a

terminal_input serial console; terminal_output serial console

mostly everywhere, so I doubt this ever worked that way.

@flokli flokli merged commit 06a34e6 into NixOS:master Apr 23, 2020
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