Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop - Kernel bug?

Hermann Himmelbauer
2003-04-30T10:19:50Z

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:21, John Bradford wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53, Nuno Silva wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> > > > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after:
> > > > INIT: Entering runlevel:3
> > > >
> > > > The next line is:
> > > > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error
> > > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > That's it.
> > >
> > > Maybe you striped too much and didn't include *any* console type
> > > (serial, vga or framebuffer)? :)
> >
> > Well - by chance we found another old Laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 350 (the
> > old was model 340) and found a RAM extension, so we have no 36MB RAM.
> >
> > But - guess what: The error still persists!
> >
> > I am quite clueless - maybe it has something to do with the IDE
> > subsystem? We put a 4GB 2.5'' HD in this old Laptop, but the harddisk is
> > correctly recognized by Linux (also Partition check), grub is also
> > working and it Linux also mounts the partition.
> >
> > Is there any way to get more information out of the kernel?
>
> What happens if you with with init set to be a shell? E.G. init=/bin/bash

Well, I would really like to try this - but it seems that this laptop needs a
special keyboard driver. It has a german keyboard layout and there is no way
to get some special characters, especially "/".

Normally with german keyboards, "/" is mapped on the "-" key, but not on this
one - some keys are simply dead, I can also not get the "[" and "\" etc. In
"grub" there seems to be no way cut&paste the "/" from "root=/dev/hda3"

I will try to generate a bootdisk and append it with "rdev".

Best Regards,
Hermann

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