Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend)

[Guillaume Lécroart <dummy.goug@free.fr>]

That's what I'm doing right now, but I would need specific features from 2.4
(802.1q vlans, softRaid...), and I can't figure out how to have them work
with the debian 2.2.20 krnl.

Thanks for the advice and the notice for ix86 anyway.

Any hint for troubleshooting ??

G

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fabbione" <fabbione@fabbione.net>
To: "Guillaume Lécroart" <dummy.goug@free.fr>
Cc: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>; <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend)


> Guillaume Lécroart wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get a 2.4 kernel booting on an Enterprise 2 with 2 CPUs.
> > The trick is that I'm using a serial console, and have no graphical card
> > inside the box.
> >
> > When booting (either 2.4.10-smp from unstable Debian or 2.4.14 compiled
on
> > the box itself after d/l from ftp.kernel.org), boot process starts ok :
> >
> > Remapping the kernel... done.
> > Booting Linux...
> > Starting CPU 1... OK
> >
> > Then stops with no output and sending break doesn't fall back to the
"{0} ok
> > " prompt. Appending something like "serial" or "console=/dev/ttyS0"
doesn't
> > help.
> >
> > Any idea anyone?
>
> I can suggest you something.. try booting a non-smp kernel and if
> possible a 2.2 series. I noticed some problem using the console port
> to monitor the boot process on 2.4 also on i386 machine. I din't
> investigate the problem to much since it was more for fun.
>
> Fabbione
>
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