Re: Debian upgrade on Qube1 failure

[Christian Gruber <cg@chilia.com>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Christian Gruber <cg@chilia.com> [2005-04-13 13:31]:
> 
>>I've installed the debian-mips tarball from Martin Michlmayr (thanks
>>for the tarball) on my QubeI (2700wg). Everthing worked fine until I
>>did a apt-get upgrade: when I rebooted my qube it stopped with
>>"Starting Debian" on the lcd. It`s hard to find any hint because the
>>qube has no serial console.
> 
> The tarball contains kernel 2.4.27-7.040815-1.noserial but the archive
> now has 2.4.27-8.040815-1.  So I assume that got installed and it will
> try to access the serial console which will crash the box.  I'll have
> to prepare a new tarball but I'm not sure when I'll get around to it.

thanks for your answer, please let us know when the new tarball is
prepared :-)

would it be possible to apply a kernel hack which detects if there is a
serial console or not?

thanks
Christian

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