Re: sporatic failure to boot on sgi750
Hi Brian,
Hmmm, I would have suggested ttyS0 but I'm not sure where the proper
location for VGA is.... Some internal documentation at HP indicates tty1
may also work--it suggests tty1 but says tty0 should also work.
I don't have a system like this to test on.
-dave
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:54 -0400, Brian Szymanski wrote:
> > I used to have a very similar problem on my Compaq DL590/64. I
> > fixed it
> > by adding "console=tty0" to the ELILO kernel argument list. It was
> > doing just what David said, semi-randomly choosing between VGA and
> > serial console. I have no idea why.
> >
> Unfortunately, I added this to elilo.conf (see attach), ran elilo, and
> rebooted... And the behavior is the same. If I had thought about it I
> wouldn't have expected it to work anyway, since when the system is
> unpingable as well when it stops outputting text, even after a few
> minutes (I guess it's possible the kernel blocks waiting for the
> serial console, but that seems unlikely) ... Maybe it's time to start
> poking in the BIOS...
>
> Thanks again for the ideas so far... Any others?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian Szymanski
>
> plain text document attachment (elilo.conf)
> ## elilo configuration file generated by elilo 3.6-3.1
>
> install=/usr/lib/elilo/elilo.efi
> boot=/dev/sda1
> delay=20
> default=Linux
> append="console=tty0"
>
> relocatable
>
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> root=/dev/sda3
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img
> append="console=tty0"
>
> image=/vmlinuz.old
> label=LinuxOLD
> root=/dev/sda3
> read-only
> initrd=/initrd.img.old
> append="console=tty0"
>
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