[parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[Tom]

So I upgraded from the 0.9 to the latest 0.91. Exerything worked nicely,
no errors, except now I get no login on the console. Looking over the boot
messages there's no errors, but there is two lines saying the FB is alive
and well and the console is switching to STI FB color console. Last
messages is after "INIT: switching to runlevel 2" and all the
"starting:..." messages (the last one is cron starting).

I *had* all the common pitfalls saved, until I had a drive crash in the
mail server and nuke all the saved mail :-(. So, if someone can tell me
the simple solution to this I'd appreciate it... If needed the output of
dmesg is at http://www.alaskatech.org/stuff/715boot.txt

Thanks!

Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[Richard Hirst]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:50:39PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> So I upgraded from the 0.9 to the latest 0.91. Exerything worked nicely,
> no errors, except now I get no login on the console. Looking over the boot
> messages there's no errors, but there is two lines saying the FB is alive
> and well and the console is switching to STI FB color console. Last
> messages is after "INIT: switching to runlevel 2" and all the
> "starting:..." messages (the last one is cron starting).
> 
> I *had* all the common pitfalls saved, until I had a drive crash in the
> mail server and nuke all the saved mail :-(. So, if someone can tell me
> the simple solution to this I'd appreciate it... If needed the output of
> dmesg is at http://www.alaskatech.org/stuff/715boot.txt

Presumably you logged in via the network to get that dmesg output,
so the machine is working ok.  Sounds like a frame buffer problem.
0.9 used STI console, 0.9.x uses STI frame buffer, if it is a chipset
it recognises.

When you say you upgraded from 0.9 to 0.91, what do you mean?  Did
you simply reinstall from the new .iso, or something else?  If you just
installed, how did you get to being able to read dmesg without console
access?

I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0?

Maybe Helge can comment, if he reads this.

Richard

Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[Tom]

> > Me:
> > So I upgraded from the 0.9 to the latest 0.91. Exerything worked nicely,
> > no errors, except now I get no login on the console. Looking over the boot
> > messages there's no errors, but there is two lines saying the FB is alive
> > and well and the console is switching to STI FB color console. Last
> > messages is after "INIT: switching to runlevel 2" and all the
> > "starting:..." messages (the last one is cron starting).

> Richard:
> Presumably you logged in via the network to get that dmesg output,
> so the machine is working ok.  Sounds like a frame buffer problem.
> 0.9 used STI console, 0.9.x uses STI frame buffer, if it is a chipset
> it recognises.

Yeah, the machine itself worked fine, just no console output. COM1 console
as well as SSH in both are quite happy.

> When you say you upgraded from 0.9 to 0.91, what do you mean?  Did
> you simply reinstall from the new .iso, or something else?  If you just
> installed, how did you get to being able to read dmesg without console
> access?

I had been doing the incremental updates, but when the ISO came out I
reinstalled. Console worked fine during the install...

> I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0?

It is now - that is what I missed. For some reason the 0.91 install
disabled all the tty's for local consoles. Not sure why that is a default
setting, but I just test things - I'm not quite up to understanding what's
actually happening :-)

Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[Helge Deller]

Hi Tom, Richard,

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 11:29, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 07:50:39PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> > So I upgraded from the 0.9 to the latest 0.91. Exerything worked nicely,
> > no errors, except now I get no login on the console. Looking over the
> > boot messages there's no errors, but there is two lines saying the FB is
> > alive and well and the console is switching to STI FB color console. Last
> > messages is after "INIT: switching to runlevel 2" and all the
> > "starting:..." messages (the last one is cron starting).
> >
> > I *had* all the common pitfalls saved, until I had a drive crash in the
> > mail server and nuke all the saved mail :-(. So, if someone can tell me
> > the simple solution to this I'd appreciate it... If needed the output of
> > dmesg is at http://www.alaskatech.org/stuff/715boot.txt
>
> Presumably you logged in via the network to get that dmesg output,
> so the machine is working ok.  Sounds like a frame buffer problem.
> 0.9 used STI console, 0.9.x uses STI frame buffer, if it is a chipset
> it recognises.

IIRC the 715/100 is nearly identical to the 715/64, so sticon and stifb should work.

> .....

> I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0?

Tom: Does it ?  If not, then that's why it's failing.

Greetings,

Helge

Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console?

[Richard Hirst]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:21:16PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Helge Deller wrote:
> > > > I assume your /etc/inittab is spawning a getty on tty0?
> > >
> > > Tom: Does it ?  If not, then that's why it's failing.
> >
> > Tom, I just saw you already answered this.
> > So please forget about my mail.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Helge
> 
> No problem :-)  Actually, my only remaining question is why disabling the
> tty[x] entries in inittab would be a default behavior; I had changed it
> with 0.9 and the install of 0.91 changed it back. Weird.
> 
> Anyway, that might be a good thing to change for a 1.0 release - assuming
> the console will be serial could be bad...

Installer should auto detect whether it is on a serial on graphical
console, and set up inittab appropriately.  Sounds like it got confused
in your case.  Not aware of anyone else having that problem.

Richard