Bug#488441: Installation failed on HPPA D9000 D390

[Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net>]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:29:36AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > Comments/Problems:
> >   Boot stops after: Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed
> 
> I see:
>  2: console=ttyB0
> 
> Which leads me to suspect that this may be #484366.
> 
> Can you try booting with 'BOOT_DEBUG=3' and at the debug shell removing 
> the "/bin/cttyhack " bits from the ::sysinit: and ::respawn: lines in
> /etc/inittab?

Your suspicion was absolutely right. Depending on whether or not the serial
management card is installed the console device as exposed to user-space
becomes either ttyB0 or ttyS0:

With the serial management card the kernel reports:
  console handover: boot [ttyB0] -> real [ttyB0]

while without it reports:
   console handover: boot [ttyB0] -> real [ttyS0]

The seconds case obviously matches what d-i assumes and work out of the box,
the first one only with the hack you described.

  Sjoerd
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