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• After the installation completes, press tab to go to the help section above.

• Select Enter shell

• Run echo 'systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS4.service' | chroot /target

  • This enables the console for ttyS4 for the installed image.

• Run exit

• Select Reboot

• When prompted, remove the installation media and press enter

• Device will be rebooted

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• You'll encounter a window resembling:

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  setparams 'Install Ubuntu Server' set gfxpayload=keep linux        /casper/vmlinuz   quiet  ---  initrd        /casper/initrd

• Remove the quiet parameter and change the entry that starts with ‘linux’ to look as follows:

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  linux /casper/vmlinuz console=tty1 console=ttyS4,115200n8 systemd.wants=serial-getty@ttyS4 —

• Wait for the live USB to boot

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Live Live

Live USB settings

• After live USB bootsAmidst the kernel output, press Enter to swiftly locate the shell prompt.

• Run sudo subiquity

  • NOTE: On newer Ubuntu versions the installer might run automatically, so you can skip this step.

• If you see a “waiting for cloud init” message, wait until it times out and opens the installer (could take some time since some services should finish starting in the background).

• Proceed with your preferred installation settings and await completion

• Wait until installation is complete

• When prompted, remove the installation media and press enter

• Device will be rebooted

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• Boot into BIOS

• Boot from the disk you installed linux on

• If you don't get a grub menu automatically, press the “arrow down” key repetitively right after you pressed enter to boot from BIOS

  • If you dont get the grub menu after pressing shift, connect a keyboard to the device and hold shift on the connected keyboard when booting

• In the grub menu choose:

  • Advanced options for Ubuntu

  • Select the line that says recovery mode

  • Press ’e’

  • In the line that says: linux        /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-43-generic root=UUID=4c58e5aa-6443-4fb2-84e7-4ac2265a7b9e ro recovery nomodeset dis_ucode_ldr

  • Add the console parameters to grub after the ‘ro’ parameter

    • from this:

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      linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.2.0-27-generic root=UUID=1dfc1a94-6289-4b15-9f4f-0fb36c083841 ro

    • to this:

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        linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.2.0-27-generic root=UUID=1dfc1a94-6289-4b15-9f4f-0fb36c083841 ro console=tty1 console=ttyS4,115200n8 systemd.wants=serial-getty@ttyS4 quiet

      • Note: if you want to see the boot logs remove the quiet argumentPress ctrl+x to boot

• Type to enable the ttyS4 service automatically when you boot: systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS4

• edit grub config file: nano /etc/default/grub

  • add the console redirection to the grub default options (same as above):
    on line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT add the following

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    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet console=tty1 console=ttyS4,115200n8"

  • save the file and run: update-grub

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