Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Dunham wrote: > > Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>] > > > > > > I hope I will release a new set of bootdisks thrusday evening (need to > > > update > > > my local mirror one more time before). > > > I just tried a bit to deal with 2.2 kernels with no success. It don't > > > eject > > > floppy automatically after the rescue disk was read and I displays the > > > following message: > > > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > > > when booting from the net (tftpboot.imh method). > > > > That's odd, I've successfully used late 2.1.x kernels with the old > > root image. I'll take a look at your images tomorrow. (Technically, > > /dev/console should be major 5 minor 1 with the new kernels, but I > > don't know if it makes that much of a difference.)
> It was using a serial console display. > Anyway, I'm now using my latest bootdisks merged with a 2.2.0 kernel > on SparcClassic with linux console (cg3 + monitor) still with no > success. It displays the first dialog box (choosing color or > mononochrome) but the keyboard is not responding at all (not arrow > keys, no enter, ...) :-( However, I can switch to other VTs (via > ALT+F?) and in all of them but the first, the keyboard is working > fine. Ok, since the second VT is working, I launched dbootstrap in > it. It seems to work well: I can do configuring the keyboard, > partitioning the hard drive, and so on. I just run in trouble when > I run a subshell from dbootstrap. Outputs of the programs I run > from the shell are going to the second VT as usual, but the shell's > prompt is not displaying in this VT but in the first one !!! stderr > outputs are sent to the first VT as well. In the first VT I can see > the following message displayed at ash starting time: I just had the same problem (no keyboard) on an UltraSparc1 with a 2.2.0 kernel. (Using the first patch that David Miller made available.) The problem is somehow related to changes since the last version of the boot-floppies package. If you take the old root.bin and attach it to a 2.2.0 kernel, it works fine. (You can even start another "dinstall" on VC2 and create a subshell.) As far as I can tell, there are no differences between the devices. Maybe "init" is doing something different? Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
