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Re: Altix 330?



On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:52:02PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote:
> I went into EFI command mode, and then ran elilo.  The kernel loaded  
> from the CD fine, and began to run:
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... done
> Loading file \initrd.gz...done
> Linux version 2.6.18-4-itanium (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-11)  
> (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian  
> 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 14:35:08 UTC 2007

[...]

> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=atapi0:/linux  priority=low -- ro

[...]

> sn_console: Console driver init
> ttySG0 at I/O 0x0 (irq = 0) is a SGI SN L1

[...]

> After which it went rather quiet.  To me, this smells like it's  
> working, just not talking to the console any more.  It's running  
> quite an old PROM, so I'm going to update that, and then try again.

Looks like it found the console, but does it change the behavior if you
explicitly pass console=ttySG0 on the kernel boot line?

Greg



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