Re: new sparc boot-floppies in progress

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr> writes:
>3. I guess I found a way to fix the broken tty redirection we have
>  experienced in dboostrap with 2.2 kernels: I changed the console
>  detection code in init.c to avoid using /dev/console directly
>  because it does not support job control.  I try to detect the
>  backend instead then reopen the real tty (either /dev/tty1 or
>  /dev/ttyS<n>).
>
>  Now job control is working on the first tty and, even better,
>  stderr could be redirected to tty3 again :-))
>
>No objection to commit these changes to the 2.1 branch ?

Please do!  Maybe this will let me get serial installs working on i386.

		- Jim Van Zandt