On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 08:17:34PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > A Personal DECstation a.k.a. Maxine does not have ttyS2 - the serial > port is ttyS0 there. Unfortunately, you will not get very far even with > the correct console device, as there is a bug in the Linux kernel which > causes a complete freeze of the system right after starting the > installer on this kind of system. This happens _only_ on Personal > DECstations, but nobody has yet been able to find out the reason for > the crash yet. This crash is the reason why the Personal DECstation > series is listed as "currently unsupported" in the Debian/mipsel > install documentation. I have seen something similar on the Decstation 5k/150 which seems to be installer size caused. Just booting the kernel always worked for me but not the kernel + ramdisk. I guess the decstations proms have a serious problem with booting large kernels. Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Heisenberg may have been here.
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