Re: RSC console redirection on a Fire 280R
Looks okay to me. Try booting linux215sc with '-p', hopefully
you'll see where it goes wrong.
Martin
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 09:33:13PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone got a working console redirection set up with a Sun Fire 280R's
> RSC card and a Linux kernel 2.6.x? I do a 'bootmode -u normal' followed
> by a 'reset', and that temporarily resets the PROM variables output-device
> and input-device so that it goes to rsc-console. (The keyboard and monitor
> remain plugged in physically at the time.)
>
> This gets me the PROM input/output nicely, then I boot into SILO, but then
> problems arise. With a 2.4.x kernel, I get the console output, but no input.
> With 2.6.x I get nothing after the screen is cleared for the first time by
> the kernel.
>
> The relevant silo.conf bits are:
>
> append="video=atyfb:off"
> [...]
>
> # this is the 2.4.x image that output to RSC (but doesn't take input from it)
> image=/boot/vmlinuz.old
> label=linux.oldsc
> append="video=atyfb:off console=ttyS0,9600n8"
>
> # these two don't output anything to the RSC
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.5
> label=linux215
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.5
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.5
> label=linux215sc
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.5
> append="video=atyfb:off console=ttyS0,9600n8"
>
> I also tried removing all of framebuffer and boot logo from the 2.6 kernel,
> but nothing changed.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
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