Hi, I just tried the etch cd on our Altix 350. There is effectively a bug filled (408588) for the console problem at startup and the workaround is still to use CONSOLE=ttySG0 (uppercase for CONSOLE is important).
After that, the installation will go fine. When you reboot in the new installed system, you will have no console to log in at the end of the boot process. One workaround is to boot on the installation cd, mount the new installed root filesystem and add a 'getty' entry for ttySG0 in the /etc/inittab file. Also add the ttySG0 entry in the /etc/securetty. The way I found to correct this thing when installing was to do a post-install script (http://rad.bioinfo.ulaval.ca/Members/steph/91altix - forget the Part 2 and 3 in it). This is basically the 90console script that I modified for the altix console. Dann, what do you think would be the best way to add the ttySG0 in inittab and securetty at the end of the installation? Bye! Stéphane Larose On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:39, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > You should try the solution described here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/02/msg00079.html > > Instead of using "console=/dev/ttySG0", you can try with "CONSOLE=ttySG0" >
