[pve-devel] [PATCH docs] installation: add serial console grub entry

Christoph Heiss c.heiss at proxmox.com
Fri Feb 23 13:06:00 CET 2024


This was added with the 8.1 release ISO, so mention it in the
documentation too.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
---
 pve-installation.adoc | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pve-installation.adoc b/pve-installation.adoc
index 6b44fc0..dff1a70 100644
--- a/pve-installation.adoc
+++ b/pve-installation.adoc
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ Starts the console-mode installation wizard. It provides the same overall
 installation experience as the graphical installer, but has generally better
 compatibility with very old and very new hardware.
 
+Install {pve} (Terminal UI, Serial Console)::
+
+Starts the terminal-mode installation wizard, additionally setting up the Linux
+kernel to use the (first) serial port of the machine for in- and output. This
+can be used if the machine is completely headless and only has a serial console
+available.
+
 [thumbnail="screenshot/pve-tui-installer.png"]
 
 Both modes use the same code base for the actual installation process to
-- 
2.43.0





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