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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Rick Altherr wrote: |
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> I'm assuming you didn't add a video card to the system. |
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That's correct. |
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> You need to specify console=ttyS0 for the console to be pushed to the serial port. |
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I did that (actually "console=ttyS0,57600" like I have wrote below) and |
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I also burned new 2004.2.iso with different kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 but |
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result was the same. |
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I think that I have something wrong with kernel's .config because |
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it seems to be so that http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/ |
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succeeded with 2.6.8-gentoo-r1 |
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> I don't know if the ISO starts a getty process on the serial port, |
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> however. Also, beta3 doesn't have the broadcom gigabit driver needed |
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> for the onboard ethernet ports. |
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> Rick Altherr |
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> Architecture & Performance Group |
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> Apple Computer, Inc. |
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> raltherr@×××××.com |
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> (408) 974-7497 |
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> On Aug 24, 2004, at 11:19 AM, IsoH wrote: |
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> > I'm trying to boot XServeG5 cluster node with tgall's |
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> > install-ppc64-g5-minimal-2004.2-beta3.iso.bz2 (2004-08-13) |
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> > but boot just hangs here: |
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> > boot: G5 console=ttyS0,57600 |
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> > Please wait, loading kernel... |
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> > Elf64 kernel loaded... |
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> > Loading ramdisk... |
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> > ramdisk loaded at 01c00000, size: 1186 Kbytes |
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> > Looking for displays |
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> > OF stdout is : |
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> > /ht@0,f2000000/pci@3/mac-io@7/escc@13000/ch-a@13020 |
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> > Opening displays... |
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> > Calling quiesce ... |
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> > DO-QUIESCE finishedreturning from prom_init |
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> > and then nothing?! |
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> > So, do I forget something important here? |
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IsoH |
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