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Re: Installing Debian Cdrom Fails console mode.



Hi,

On the PDC you should check that the console path is well set to your
serial port:
- co
- pa con
should give serial......
is you see MONITOR... it is probably the reason why.


NeoNapster wrote:
> Hi I am having a real problem trying to get debian installed on a HP UX
> 9000 785 C360 from the console port as I do not have a monitor for it.
> 
> I halt the boot process type sea ipl and then bo p0 I have hunted
> through the mailing list but to no avail they all seem to point to a
> running kernel. I am running minicom from FreeBSD to the console port
> over ssh incase this is a issue.
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the output of my boot process
> 
>  
> 
> Main Menu: Enter command > bo p0
> 
> Interact with IPL (Y, N, Q)?> y
> 
>  
> 
> Booting...
> > Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 153
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> HARD Booted.
> 
> palo ipl 0.96 root@palinux Fri Nov  2 16:31:18 MST 2001
> 
>  
> 
> Boot image contains:
> 
>     0/vmlinux32 3122078 bytes @ 0xec800
> 
>     0/vmlinux64 3990942 bytes @ 0x3e7000
> 
>     0/ramdisk 1946807 bytes @ 0x7b5800
> 
>  
> 
> Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is normal.
> 
> PALO will choose the console currently  used by firmware (serial).
> 
> Current command line:
> 
> 0/vmlinux root=/dev/ram initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102
> 
>  0: 0/vmlinux
> 
>  1: root=/dev/ram
> 
>  2: initrd=0/ramdisk
> 
>  3: console=ttyS0
> 
>  4: TERM=vt102
> 
>  
> 
> Edit which field?
> 
> (or 'b' to boot with this command line)? B
> 
>  
> 
> Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102'
> 
> Selected kernel: /vmlinux from partition 0
> 
> Selected ramdisk: /ramdisk from partition 0
> 
> Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64 -- Guessing... Choosing
> 32-bit kernel
> 
> ELF32 executable
> 
> Entry 00100000 first 00100000 n 6
> 
> Segment 0 load 00100000 size 1618208 mediaptr 0x1000
> 
> Segment 1 load 0028c000 size 287728 mediaptr 0x18d000
> 
> Segment 2 load 002d4000 size 379072 mediaptr 0x1d4000
> 
> Segment 3 load 00334000 size 8192 mediaptr 0x231000
> 
> Segment 4 load 00338000 size 32768 mediaptr 0x233000
> 
> Segment 5 load 003750e8 size 83184 mediaptr 0x23b0e8
> 
> Loading ramdisk 1946807 bytes @ 1fe14000...
> 
> Branching to kernel entry point 0x00100000.  If this is the last
> 
> message you see, you may need to switch your console.  This is
> 
> a common symptom -- search the FAQ and mailing list at parisc-linux.org
> 
> 
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