[Fwd: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60]

[Fwd: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60]

[James Waterhouse]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 
> David Huggins-Daines <dhd@linuxcare.com> writes:
> 
> > Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > I'm seeing the same here. The kernel switches independend of your
> > > kernel-settings (STI-Console - no STI-Console) to serial-console and just
> > > puts some of it's error-messages to the STI-console.
> > > If you don't have a nullmodem cable, you could try to ping/telnet your
> > > parisc, to see if it's still alive.
> > > I currently don't know which change in CVS disallowed us to use just
> > > STI-Console, but will try to figure out later today.
> >
> > Very strange, because it worked for me.  But perhaps I had a magical
> > combination of .config settings that eludes others.
> 
> Well, I can't reproduce this on my 712/80 with either sticon or stifb.
> I've attached my .config for sticon.
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                Name: config-sti-not-borken
>    config-sti-not-borken       Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>                         Description: config
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------

After looking at dhd's config I think my problem may be just due to
stupidity on my part. I don't know anything about hp's and have just had
my hp for about three days now. Knowing nothing about hp's I just used
the default config for linux and that is prob where the problem is.
Anyway I will compile a new kernel and get back to you on this.

Thanks,
James

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[Fwd: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60]

[James Waterhouse]

Hello,
Is the ramdisk at 
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/ramdisks/ramdisk.bin-20000803
useable? I'm just wondering cause in the recipe we are told to use the
older ramdisks. Also this ramdisk doe not say wether it is for serial or
graphics console. But since I read Grants reply it would seem that it
does not matter. Is this true? Is this a useable ramdisk? What can
anyone tell me about it?

thanks,
James


Grant Grundler wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Mathew Wilcox posted the "how-to" on ramdisk:
>     http://puffin.external.hp.com/mailing-lists/parisc-linux/2000/01-Jan/0078.html
> 
> grant
> 
> Grant Grundler
> Unix Systems Enablement Lab
> +1.408.447.7253

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[Fwd: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60]

[James Waterhouse]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> 
> 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.

So I should not have to do anything other then what I have been doing
which is just "make palo" right? (I have been following the "recipe"
given here ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/debug/recipe.x)

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