Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:28:43PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
...
> > I thought it might be a baud rate issue.  The 5501 starts with
> > 19200 baud, so I altered pxelinux.cfg/default to use the same speed
> > and to specify the right console (before I added "CONSOLE 0" on one
> > line, I'd get double characters).  Here's the pxelinux.cfg file:
> >
> > SERIAL 0 19200
> > CONSOLE 0
> > DISPLAY boot-screens/boot.txt
> >
> > F1 boot-screens/f1.txt
> > F2 boot-screens/f2.txt
> > F3 boot-screens/f3.txt
> > F4 boot-screens/f4.txt
> > F5 boot-screens/f5.txt
> > F6 boot-screens/f6.txt
> > F7 boot-screens/f7.txt
> > F8 boot-screens/f8.txt
> > F9 boot-screens/f9.txt
> > F0 boot-screens/f10.txt
> >
> > DEFAULT install
> >
> > LABEL install
> > 	kernel linux
> > 	append vga=normal initrd=initrd.gz --
>
> also append: console=ttyS0,19200

It seems like this, added to the append line, is all that was needed.  
It's working fine now and starts the install -- where the install 
program comes from, I'm not clear (on the ramdrive?), but it works.

Thank you!


Hal