Re: Netboot on Multia

[Harmon Seaver <hseaver@gmail.com>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:35:13PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> 
>>    Following the srm howto, I first did:
> 
>> set ewa0_mode Auto-Sensing
>> set ewa0_protocols bootp
> 
>>  then did
> 
>> boot ewa0 -fl "console=ttyS0"
> 
>>> (And I think Multia should even be supported now for TGA console?)
> 
>>    Doesn't seem to be -- the boot sequence on the TGA console stops
>> right after the lights on the keyboard flash, just like it did before. I
>> think it loads initrd, and kernel, then nothing.
> 
> Well, certainly you won't get TGA console if you boot with console=ttyS0.  I
> thought we had TGA support working in the dailies, though.  .... hmm, nope,
> never been enabled.  Let's fix that now. :)


   Well, that would be good. And I did try without  the "console" flag
as well. When will the new boot.img be up?

> 
> Serial console support certainly shouldn't have changed lately anyway; so if
> you're hooked up to ttyS0 and not getting console, it does sound like a
> serial config issue to me.
> 
   Is there any serial config in the srm console?

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Harmon Seaver