David Cantrell wrote:
> OK, I rebuilt color.gz and did two tests with it on bootable CDs. Seems
> to be working fine now. I also renamed .boot to simply boot. I wanted it
> as .boot to match our .eltorito on the Intel version, but whatever, boot
> works fine and it doesn't seem to cause obscure errors (at least here
> anyway :)
When I boot with the console=ttyS0,9600 paramter, the kernel doesn't seem
to like it. I get the following:
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boot: linux console=ttyS0,9600
Loading initial ramdisk....
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
Booting Linux...
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I also tried the following but it didn't get the ramdisk loaded:
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boot: /boot/vmlinux.sun4cdm console=ttyS0,9600
PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
Booting Linux...
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But before I tried the above I tried without the console= parameter. Things
did go through better than before (init actually started) but there seems to
be a problem with virtual consoles. I am on a serial console Sparc 5 with
video card, but no keyboard/video/mouse attached.
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[...]
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8
sdb: sdb3 sdb8
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
INIT: version 2.76 booting
none on /proc type proc (rw)
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4, errno = 2
skmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4, errno = 2
yslogd: /dev/tty4: Nkmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4, errno = 2
o such device
syslogd: /dev/tty4: No such device
syslogd: /dev/tty4: No such device
INIT: Entering runlevel: 4
[ there was about a 2-3 minute pause here ... -phil ]
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
[ the 3 respawning messages repeat every few minutes ]
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I do have a Sun keyboard, but no 13W3-M to VGA HD-15-F adapter. If I
attach the keyboard I can't see what I'm doing. I did try booting with
it and going through as much as I could while blind, and the drive light
activity indication suggests things are working .. up to the point that
I don't know what to type next because I can't see anything.
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