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Motivation¶

While working on qamaster okurz realized that the iPXE boot menu includes boot parameters like console=ttyS1 to show content on a serial terminal which is also accessible over IPMI SoL but then a locally connected display as well as KVMViewer display does not show useful console content. iPXE should also display on local console, e.g. add console=tty0 console=ttyS1 to display also something on local screen, not just remotely

Acceptance criteria¶

• AC1: qamaster and other machines show kernel boot logs + a login prompt on both local console as well as IPMI SoL

Suggestions¶

• Compare to boot parameters we set for machines in salt, e.g. https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/worker.sls#L10
• Extend iPXE configuration in the according code, possibly https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/tree/master/ipxe
• Ensure the solution is deployed to our iPXE hosts which are probably multiple by now, e.g. qa-jump.qe.nue2.suse.org and netboot.qe.prg2.suse.org