Re: preliminary test of d-i on the mips board SWARM from Broadcom
* Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org> [2004-03-20 07:27]:
> kbd-chooser in d-i _should_ autodetect serial consoles and put this
> option on the menu. Could you please send me a copy of the install log;
> it should list whether serial console was detected or not.
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[264]: INFO: Setting debian-installer/serial-console to false·
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) user.warn kbd-chooser[264]: WARNING **: Failed to mount USB filesystem to autodetect USB keyboard;·
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) user.warn kbd-chooser[264]: WARNING **: Will add USB keyboard option just in case·
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
Jan 10 19:58:15 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[264]: INFO: Setting debian-installer/serial-console to false·
Jan 10 19:58:16 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[264]: INFO: choose_keymap: keymap = us·
Jan 10 19:58:16 (none) user.info kbd-chooser[264]: INFO: kbd_chooser: setting keymap us·
Jan 10 19:58:16 (none) user.alert kbd-chooser[264]: ERROR **: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console··
Jan 10 19:58:16 (none) user.warn main-menu[138]: WARNING **: Configuring 'kbd-chooser' failed with error code 1·
Jan 10 19:58:16 (none) user.warn main-menu[138]: WARNING **: Menu item 'kbd-chooser' failed.·
> On the SWARM, what device is used as console (during install)?
> /dev/console? /dev/ttyS1?
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.info klogd: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.info klogd: Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) syslog.warn klogd: Ignoring TIOCGSERIAL
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 52, console /dev/console: '/bin/sh'
Jan 10 19:58:10 (none) daemon.info init: Starting pid 54, console /dev/console: '/sbin/debian-installer'
Oh, I see what's going on. The UART driver for this board doesn't implement
TIOCGSERIAL.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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