Bug#369303: #369303

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:12:56AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> 
> > Compiling fbcon in the image will not help anything, the getty is
> > already using it and the penguin logo is served by it. You have wrong
> > console settings for the kernel. I don't think this is a bug at all.
> 
> Erm, if I didn't have a serial cable and I used a miboot floppy to
> install the system on reboot I would not be able to see the quik prompt
> nor the kernel boot messages.  This is a bug, albeit a low priority
> one.  It may have been solved since I last tried however, so I will try
> again when I get some time.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz