From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust95.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.95]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33080482A for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 11:20:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1BAB3B007; Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:17:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:17:34 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: diab Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] dead keyboard after booting 0.61 STI32 iso on a 715/100 Message-ID: <20010603181734.K25745@linuxcare.com> References: <1A8904C3797ED411AC2E0008C7E6F88117C8D0@nlntmail2b.ats.nld.alcatel.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from diab@diab.rulez.org on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:25:48PM +0200 List-ID: The 0.9 release CD does allow you to boot over the network and then install to a local disk via nfs or http, at least. The file you boot is a 'lifimage', and in this case contains a kernel and ramdisk. To quote the README on the 0.9 CD: > The contents of this CD can be used to do network installs on any > supported system. To do that, you need to make the CD contents > available over the network. Acces via http and nfs have been tested. > In addition, you need to boot the relevant lifimage file over the > network to start the install proceedure. The lifimages are > > debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/wide/serial/lifimage > debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/narrow/serial/lifimage > debian/dists/sid/main/disks-hppa/current/sti/lifimage > > Choose the appropriate one for your needs. Most machines do a network > boot via bootp, but some older machines use rbootd. If you cannot > find rbootd please visit our web site. > > Installing from the network is a little more involved than from CD, as > you have to specify more details regarding the archive location. The > path you specify for loading kernel and modules should be one of > ..../current/narrow, ..../current/wide, or ..../current/sti. The path > you specify for installing the base system should be ..../debian. Hope that helps. Richard. On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 05:25:48PM +0200, diab wrote: > % Just for the record, > % Have identical behaviour with c110, with ps/2 keyboard&mouse. > % Tried 0.6 and 0.6.1, both freezes after the login prompt..... > found the solution :) its pretty dunb though > > the problem is that 0.6 and 0.61 gives "console=tty" to the kernel on > boot, instead of "console=tty0" (as in 0.9) > > tried to boot 0.61 (used palo to modify console=tty to tty0) and it works > flawlessly. ok lets say i was able to bring up eth0 and nfsmount the 0.9 > iso remotely on my linux box. aint got a cd burner here at home so i > should use nfs somehow. > > anyways i found no up2date NFS howtos on the > web, but an old one (2000.02) and somehow the nfsroot=mynfsserverip > approach seemed to be not working.. gave me stupid read and seek error codes. > > anyways can i use the same lif images/kernels to boot from nfs? i dont > feel like building a cross compiler environment just for this. > if not - if would be nice to provide nfsboot capable kernel images for the > cdless people. > > the sti console works fine and everything seems to be ok. this is a > 715/100. see if i can copy the 0.9 over and make it working > > regards, > > -- > diab > > > > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux >