I'm trying to install etch-m68k on a Centris 650, with the idea that this might become a build machine, as discussed in a previous thread. I'm using Finn Thain's 2.6.22 kernel from http://www.telegraphics.com.au/~fthain/jcewy/. I've tried the nativehd install ramdisk image from Sarge and also the one at http://people.debian.org/~smarenka/d-i/images-m68k/daily/nativehd/. The arguments I'm passing to the kernel in Penguin are: mac53c9x=1,0 root=/dev/ram
With both ramdisks I get to a point where it seems to hang at "(process: 476): INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to Unicode (UTF-8)". However, I can switch to a different virtual terminal and get busybox. With 'ps' I can see that, among other things, debian-installer is running, bterm is running ( -f /lib/unifont.bgf -l C.UTF-9 /lib/de), debconf is going, main-menu is running, udpkg, and localechooser should be going. But none of these are putting up any kind of display, and if I try to switch back to the original virtual terminal, which I assume to be <alt><f1>, it doesn't change the display, except that the cursor is lost. I can go to VTs 2, 3, and 4, the last of which has diagnostic output, but as soon as I try to go back to 1, the present contents of the screen remain, but the cursor goes away. The last line in the log on VT 4 is 'init: init: starting pid 464, tty "/dev/tty2": "/bin/sh"'. Process 467, which seems to have printed the last line on the first virtual terminal before it quit responding, is gone by the time I get over to another VT and type 'ps'. But process 480 is bterm, 481 is debconf, 482 is main-menu, 507 is udpkg --configure..., 508 and 509 are shells running localechooser and localechooser.postinst. So it appears that processes are still being started up after the first VT quits responding. Probably the installer is still humming along just fine, but I can't interact with it on the console. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? JCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
