From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA20358 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:22:26 -0600 From: Helge Deller Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:22:54 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: parisc-linux References: <200010181654.JAA14222@milano.cup.hp.com> <87r95e13o5.fsf@linuxcare.com> In-Reply-To: <87r95e13o5.fsf@linuxcare.com> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00101820225400.00316@P100> List-ID: Am Wednesday 18 October 2000 19:04 schrieb David Huggins-Daines: > Grant Grundler writes: > > > James Waterhouse wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I just compiled a ramdisk using mondays cvs src for everything. I'm > > > using the graphics console ramdisk file off the puffin.external.hp.com > > > (ramdisk20000530-sticon.tgz) to make the ramdisk. Now when I got to boot > > > it boots up until the point where the kernel says... > > > > iirc, ramdisk20000530-sticon.tgz uses a "kluge" /dev/tty major/minor number. > > I was reading old mail on this and the kluge to use a different > > major/minor confused me. I was told this was no longer needed. > > So you can use a newer/regular ramdisk. > > Ah! Actually that triggers my memory. You *must* append > 'console=tty' to the kernel command line in order to use sticon (or > probably fbcon too for that matter), or else it will default to > serial. > > Usually the PALO makefile handles this for you though. Yeah, that was the problem ! I just found it too ! (And you need to enable getty in /etc/inittab). Thanks, Helge > > -- > dhd@linuxcare.com, http://www.linuxcare.com/ > Linuxcare. Support for the revolution. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject.