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From: Jeff Coffin <jcoffin@sv.usweb.com>
To: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: RE: Yet Closer
Date: 01 May 1999 21:10:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k8usun5c.fsf@chuck.sv.usweb.com> (raw)


>  Try the vmlinux-initrd kernel from the test directory. It should drop 
>  you into a single user shell with a ram disk as root. You should be able 
>  to mount your root, and fix what's necessary. 

Almost.  I get to the prompt, but it doesn't appear to respond to
keyboard stimulii.  

[...]
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Welcome to Linux/MIPS
# 


I tried feeding it an assortment of console args too:

/dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS1
/dev/tty00
/dev/tty01

Any ideas?


--jeff

             reply	other threads:[~1999-05-02  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-02  4:10 Jeff Coffin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-05-01 23:40 Yet Closer Jeff Coffin
1999-05-02  0:14 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
1999-05-01 19:39 Yet closer jcoffin
1999-05-01 21:52 ` Ralf Baechle
1999-05-02 10:24 ` Richard Hartensveld

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