Re: 2.1.1 tftpboot image
>>>>> "John" == John Chapman <john@hannes.ndip.eskimo.net> writes:
John> I've tried a couple of times this morning to boot the 2.1.1
John> image over tftpboot on an LX, and it doesn't quite want to
John> work. It gives me a TILO (!) prompt, where it sits for about
John> 15 seconds, then boots, but afterwards the installation program
John> won't accept any input from the keyboard. It looks as though
John> it's trying to find input through a serial port, but I haven't
John> got the necessary A/B splitter cable, so I can't test it. So:
John> is this image not able to detect the connected keyboard, or has
John> it been designed for serial installation only? I'll try on a
John> different machine as well (SS2 or IPX).
I found exactly the same behaviour on a sparc IPC w/ sun type 4 kbd,
cg3 graphics, and no serial cable to test the serial port. Using the
2.0.35 tftp image, it worked perfectly, as did the rest of the
install.
-Jim Jensen jwjensen@home.com
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