Re: Unexpected console switch of the installation screen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:45:56PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Hi Chris
>
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:31PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I've encountered some interesting behaviour of the debian installation
> >> system during a woody installation on an Amiga4000 APUS box (architecture:
> >> powerpc, flavor: apus), using kernel 2.4.17 and boot-floppies 3.0.19.
> >>
> >> The case why I've encountered this at all, was, that selecting "Initialize
> >> a Linux Partition" caused the installation system to restart, but I was
> >> told that this is an APUS kernel specific thing. But the following
> >> shouldn't be kernel specific, and it was also not known if this behaviour
> >> is erratic or if it is the expected behaviour of the system, so I was told
> >> to post this to this list.
> >>
> >> So here we go. When the installer restarts, it always starts in the current
> >> console the user is in. For example, when I change to console 3 shortly
> >> after selecting the ominous "Initialize a Linux Partition" menu point, it
> >> will start in console 3 (quite practical to see the kernel output on
> >> console, I am using -v ;) ). Otherwise, if I change to console 2 and the
> >> installer systems starts there, this is quite a bad idea, because on
> >> console 2 no keyboard entry can be done anymore (console 2 is the one in
> >> which a shell could be started by pressing enter during the installation).
> >>
> >> So, what do you think? Is this unexpected, or is it just the way it should
> >> be? With other words, should I file a bug against the boot-floppies, or is
> >> it just the way it should work and used for debugging?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Andi
> >
> > The restart bug on Initialize has been fixed. (A release is due shortly.)
>
> With other words, this is NOT a kernel specific bug (as "Initialize a Linux
> Partition" did correctly work with kernel 2.4.9)?
Right. It was a dbootstrap bug.
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