Re: SLC nfsroot install report (Re: ANN: new boot disks to test)
Hi,
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:51:48AM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> > resumes from the break, the kernel detects the keyboard. Could this be a
> > submodel problem or a particular hardware problem? (I did once replace a
> > dead buffer ic on the SLC's mainboard to get the keyboard working at all.)
> > My prom version is reported a 1.4 on the prom banner.
>
> Not sure, I'll have to check into that one.
On all previous boot images I tried (which all used the framebuffer
console) the kernel would crash with "Watchdog reset. Window underrun" at
the same point where it now hangs (loops?)
> > The console is somewhat broken. I cannot start dselect, for example, it
> > dies with "Error opening terminal: linux".
>
> Hmm, maybe ncurses is missing some things :/
Observe this:
# echo $TERM
linux
# clear
'linux': I can't handle hardcopy terminals
#
> Yeah, most than likely these should be changed to "potato" URI's.
>
> > Apt-get works. But dpkg sometimes fails, I suspect this is related to
> > out-of-memory situations. When I run dpkg with a -D22 option, it works
> > flawlessly, perhaps because the console output makes it go so slow.
>
> There is a lowmem option to dpkg, you can add dpkg options to
> /etc/apt/apt.conf (man apt.conf).
Oh, I didn't realize that. I just found out that -D22 doesn't work all
the time either, nor does sync'ing often. But --smallmem seems to indeed
work reliably. Thanks for the hint.
Cheers,
Joost
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