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Re: Proposal to document sparc installation issues



On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:53:32PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 22:45, Geert Stappers wrote:
| |     [ kernel upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 causes broken keyboard setup ]
> >
> >        <p>Login by ssh or serial line to cover keyboard.</p>
          <p>Login by ssh or serial line to recover keyboard.</p>
> >
> >     Probaly more informative.
> 
> Could you elaborate? No idea what you mean by "cover" here.

typo, sorry


> BTW. logging in via SSH at that stage is not possible because:
> A) ssh is not yet installed, so no sshd running (except if you installed
>    using network-console);
> B) root does not yet have a password and logging in over SSH without
>    password is disabled anyway (so even in the network-console case this
>    is not a solution).

Even beyond d-i a kernel upgrade breaks keyboard setup.

> 
> Cheers,
> FJP


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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