On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:54:20AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > - Console drops some characters when scrolling fast. This is > AFAIK a kernel issue and should at least mentioned in the > install manual (more to this point below). Kernel issue - Tried to fix it once but the serial driver is in more than one way broken. > - Manual mentions /tmp as a recommended mount point but not /boot, > Installer mentions /boot but not /tmp. Both the Manual and the > installer should be expanded WRT. I guess when using arcboot we will have a serious problem having /boot as a different fs then / because of the symlinks. /vmlinux points to a different fs. > Select Installation Server: > - Installer complains about missing Ext3 journal on loop(7,0) > when downloading. This sounds strange - ext3 in a loop - This might also be a kernel thing. Ext3 has higher priority than ext2 - Which means even an ext2 filesystem will be tried as ext3 before. Might this be the issue ? > - Warning: "loading /lib/modules/2.4.16/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.o > will taint the kernel: no license." Kernel issue - Nobody tagged vfat as GPL oder BSD in the kernel source. > Installing base system: > - The Installer does not re-use the input from "Select Installation > Server" as default. Doing so would be more convenient. There is more than one wishlist bug open IIRC. > Login: > - Message "You may now login at the login prompt", "Ok" results in > this string on the serial console: > > ----- > ðüxàxxþxàøxøxàøxàxxþxþ > ----- This i guess is a different baud rate. Try to delete /etc/ioctl.save and reboot. The userspace switches to a different baud rate on different occasions. One of the problems might be that the inittab contains a fixed baut rate and there is no way to determin which baud rate the user gave the kernel on startup. This whole issue is really difficult to solve. Anyway - 9600 is the default serial console baud rate on nearly any equipment - Maybe we should mention to use this on installation and how to switch later. > This crash was not reproducible for me. But another is, starting up > xdm causes instantly a kernel crash (it seems to loop in an exception > handler). I stopped the log after putting out 400k, the first lines > are appended below. > ----- > Data bus error, epc == 8815f984, ra == 880c3a68 > Oops in traps.c:default_be_board_handler, line 442: > $0 : 00000000 80000000 7fff73d8 7fff73d8 7fff53d8 80090000 00002000 881c6b40 > $8 : 00000000 00090000 00000000 00000003 000000b0 00002000 881c6b40 7fff53d8 This looks like the X Server trying to touch the Framebuffer which doesnt seem to work - You have booted on serial console and tried to start X ? Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Nine nineth on september the 9th Welcome to the new billenium
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