>It might be easier to do this in %post rather than modify anaconda.
Actually it was even simpler than that. At the suggestion of some other
gentlemen I downloaded the booty and ks-postinstall source rpm's. I was
looking through the .py files and I liked what I saw. It appeared the
installer would already do what I wanted. And in fact (minus the comments)
below is the grub.conf that the installer built me without mucking about
with anything.
I'm kind of curious why RedHat/Fedora does not have isolinux.cfg setup to do
a serial boot in addition to the console boot, and the ability built in to
modify /etc/inittab for the appropriate serial console if you do a serial
install and the same for /etc/securetty.
Before even asking that, I don't even know if isolinux can send to and
receive from multiple serial consoles. If your stuck configuring for one
and only one then it's a moot point right there, you'd be back to using a
keboard/monitor to boot, and by then you might as well finish the install
that way, or building your own CD again.
What I did wasn't all that tremendously pretty. I wrote the serial console
information in isolinux.cfg, /etc/inittab in the initscripts rpm, and
securetty in the setup rpm such that it will only work for ttyS0. I guess
it would be nice for me or someone else to make it more dynamic if possible,
but for now it does what I want :)
default=0
timeout=10
serial --unit=0 --speed=9600
terminal --timeout=10 serial console
password --md5 tasty
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0
con
sole=ttyS0,9600n8 rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
