From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id A29C8482A for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:16:55 -0600 (MDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Helge Deller To: Richard Hirst , Tom Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 715/100 no longer boots into console? Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 23:12:02 +0200 Cc: PA-RISC Linux List References: <20010717102903.N30356@linuxcare.com> In-Reply-To: <20010717102903.N30356@linuxcare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20010717211655.A29C8482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> List-ID: 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