Brett,

Thanks for your help. I have tried to battle with it
but I have given up! >:o( (for now anyway)  It seems
to lock up completely after a while.

I'm also not having any joy in getting eth0 working -
not helped by whacky console!  The install doc
suggests modprobe tulip, but this doesn't get eth0 to
appear if I do an ifconfig.

Very frustrating!  Still, better than Debian - it
hangs while booting from CD!

Perhaps I'll look into swapping the D360 for a
proliant and try X86 gentoo!  Either that or raise a
bug report and wait... :0/

Regards,

Graham.

--- Brett Johnson <brett@...> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:46:48PM +0100,
> gwhiteside@... wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'm trying to install 2.6.16.1-pa4-livecd32 on an
> HP
> > D360 box with a serial console.
> > 
> > I first tried booting with all palo settings as
> > default. i.e.
> > 
> > Information: No console specified on kernel
> command
> > line. This is normal.
> > PALO will choose the console currently used by
> > firmware (serial).Current command
> >  line:
> > 0/vmlinux initrd=initrd TERM=linux root=/dev/ram0
> > init=/linuxrc cdroot looptype=
> > squashfs loop=/image.squashfs hda=scsi hdb=scsi
> > console=ttyB0
> >  0: 0/vmlinux
> >  1: initrd=initrd
> >  2: TERM=linux
> >  3: root=/dev/ram0
> >  4: init=/linuxrc
> >  5: cdroot
> >  6: looptype=squashfs
> >  7: loop=/image.squashfs
> >  8: hda=scsi
> >  9: hdb=scsi
> > 10: console=ttyB0
> > 
> > <#>    edit the numbered field
> > 'b'    boot with this command line
> > 'r'    restore command line
> > 'l'    list dir
> > ? 0
> > 
> > It boots OK, but then the console seems to get
> messed
> > up. (It's OK until login stage).  Sometimes
> characters
> > don't echo, line feeds are all over the place, and
> the
> > prompts are really irratic - it's like a getty is
> > sharing the same console as a shell. :o/
> > 
> > Example:
> >
>
=====================================================
> > 
> > Please report any bugs you find to
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org. Be sure to include
> > detailed information about how to reproduce the
> bug
> > you are reporting.
> > Thank you for using Gentoo Linux!
> > 
> > livecd root #
> > 
> > 
> > livecd root # ls
> > livecd root # Login incorrect
> > 
> > 
> > livecd login:
> > livecd root #
> > Password: pwd
> > /root
> > livecd root #
> > Login incorrect
> > 
> > ls
> > livecd root #
> > livecd login:
> > 
> >
>
=====================================================
> > 
> > I then tried booting with palo option 10 deleted.
> (No
> > console option in boot command).  This time I got
> a
> > stable console prompt, but it now wants a login
> and I
> > don't have the password.  I see on a PC platform
> the
> > user has to ctrl-alt-F1 to another console and use
> > passwd to set the root password, but I can't do
> that
> > in this case.
> > 
> > 
> >
>
=====================================================
> > This is livecd.gentoo (Linux parisc
> > 2.6.15.1-pa4-livecd32) 13:23:49
> > 
> > livecd login:
> > 
> >
>
=====================================================
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Graham.
> > -- 
> > 
> I had the same problem when I installed on my K200.
> What I ended up
> doing was fighting with the console to get the root
> password changed and
> sshd started. Once I had that (took on average over
> 20 minutes of
> messing around), I just ssh'd in and did the install
> remotely. I never
> could figure out why the login prompt keept
> appearing. I did notice a
> pattern on when the login prompt appeared, and I
> just had to time my
> passwd command to work between the login prompt
> cycles. You have to
> trust the keyboard, and not the console ;-)
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> 
> 

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