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 PAA24344 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:12:47 -0600 Sender: fleet@mailserv2.iuinc.com Message-ID: <39EE1294.B447BF1D@videotron.ca> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:13:56 -0400 From: James Waterhouse MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Deller , "parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] booting on 712/60 References: <200010181654.JAA14222@milano.cup.hp.com> <87r95e13o5.fsf@linuxcare.com> <00101820225400.00316@P100> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Hello Helge, Helge Deller wrote: > > 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). So what did you do to get it to work? You gave 'console=tty' to the kernel command line? Where is it that you give the command line? Do you have to modify a make file or what? Or are you just running palo/palo with args as given in the palo doc? Which ramdisk did you have to modify inittab in? Jame > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject. -- Can you discern the signs of the times? || www.danielrevelation.com Do you see the storm fast approaching? || www.sundaylaw.com Is your future built on "The Rock"? || www.bibleinfo.com/sc/toc_sc.html