On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:58:35PM -0600, phil@ipal.net wrote:
> 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:
>
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
> boot: linux console=ttyS0,9600
> Loading initial ramdisk....
> PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
> Booting Linux...
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
>
> I also tried the following but it didn't get the ramdisk loaded:
>
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
> boot: /boot/vmlinux.sun4cdm console=ttyS0,9600
> PROMLIB: obio_ranges 1
> Booting Linux...
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
>
> 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.
>
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
> [...]
> 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 ]
> ----<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>--------<CUT HERE>----
>
> 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.
>
When I use the console terminal on the SPARC, I never pass a special
kernel parameter. All you need to do is remove the framebuffer, don't
attach and keyboard, then plug in a serial terminal to serial port A.
I've never done this with a real terminal, but with a null modem and
kermit. Either way, once the Sun sees it doesn't have a framebuffer or
keyboard, it'll dump everything out on the serial port.
--
David Cantrell | david@slackware.com
KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project
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