Hi Chris > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:25:31PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've encountered some interesting behaviour of the debian installation >> system during a woody installation on an Amiga4000 APUS box (architecture: >> powerpc, flavor: apus), using kernel 2.4.17 and boot-floppies 3.0.19. >> >> The case why I've encountered this at all, was, that selecting "Initialize >> a Linux Partition" caused the installation system to restart, but I was >> told that this is an APUS kernel specific thing. But the following >> shouldn't be kernel specific, and it was also not known if this behaviour >> is erratic or if it is the expected behaviour of the system, so I was told >> to post this to this list. >> >> So here we go. When the installer restarts, it always starts in the current >> console the user is in. For example, when I change to console 3 shortly >> after selecting the ominous "Initialize a Linux Partition" menu point, it >> will start in console 3 (quite practical to see the kernel output on >> console, I am using -v ;) ). Otherwise, if I change to console 2 and the >> installer systems starts there, this is quite a bad idea, because on >> console 2 no keyboard entry can be done anymore (console 2 is the one in >> which a shell could be started by pressing enter during the installation). >> >> So, what do you think? Is this unexpected, or is it just the way it should >> be? With other words, should I file a bug against the boot-floppies, or is >> it just the way it should work and used for debugging? >> >> Kind regards, >> Andi > > The restart bug on Initialize has been fixed. (A release is due shortly.)
With other words, this is NOT a kernel specific bug (as "Initialize a Linux Partition" did correctly work with kernel 2.4.9)? > As > far as what happens when it restarts, I guess that's just weird behavior and > outside the realm of planned events ... unless someone knows what's going on > and can fix it without too much trouble. No idea.. -- Thanks for your information, kind regards, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
