From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA87776 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:08:43 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id RAA01767 for linux-list; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:08:03 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id RAA13552 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:08:01 -0800 (PST) mail_from (richard@infopact.nl) Received: from perron-null.patser.net (9dyn136.breda.casema.net [195.96.116.136]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id RAA07494 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:07:58 -0800 (PST) mail_from (richard@infopact.nl) Received: from infopact.nl (indigo2.patser.net [192.168.6.40]) by perron-null.patser.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id BAA11755; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 01:56:34 +0100 Message-ID: <36C22E71.729B3FE3@infopact.nl> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:12:17 -0800 From: Richard Hartensveld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Chiapusio CC: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Challange S question.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Chris Chiapusio wrote: > This is my first time working witha net booting workstation and i'm > having a problem w/ the install kernel booting on a Challenge S. > > I saw the mention in the mail archive and attempted to do as it instructs, > but alas, I have had no success. > > the kernel says this on boot: > SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00 > Keyboard timeout > Keyboard timeout > tty00 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 > tty01 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530 > > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). > Adv: done running setup() > Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed > > and freezes there. > > now what i've done regarding the instructions on the web site are: > [root@outland dev]# pwd > /usr/src/sgi/installfs/dev > [root@outland dev]# ls -al tty* console* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:16 console -> ttyS0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty00 -> ttyS0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty01 -> ttyS1 > crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 May 11 1998 tty1 > crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 May 11 1998 tty2 > crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 May 11 1998 tty3 > crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 May 11 1998 tty4 > crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 May 11 1998 tty5 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 64 Feb 10 16:16 ttyS0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 65 Feb 10 16:13 ttyS1 > You should link /dev/ttyS1 to /dev/console and all will be fine. Richard