Hi all. I just subscribed to the list. (that's why I'm starting a new thread :))
I recently put my bofhish hands on a NetraX1, and I'm trying to turn it into the cheapest rackable linux box around :) I scavenged thru this list archives and many others' ones and I wish to thank all those who are working to make linux run on this little 64bit machine. I made some attempts to boot a kernel (using stuff from http://auric.debian.org/~bcollins), and I'm in the same situation as Adam McKenna was on 25 June. Some days later, Richard Mortimer said he had a non networked Suse 7.1 up and running. He did not specified if Suse has a prebuiltin support in installation or if he used Ben Collins' stuff. Adam asked how did he get past the console problem and after some mails I understood that Richard never had one. Am I right? (he said "I added console=ttya as boot parameter" then David Miller said "There's no need for that" then Richard replied "you're right, it works without"). It seems that as for 7 July also Ben Collins has no more problems except from the network card. I have to be 3 weeks late, since I'm still struck with the console problem :) I tried console=<many things> (ttya, ttyb, ttyS0) I also guessed from other situation that /dev/console in the ram disk root could be missed, but it's there (assuming that tftpboot.img contains the same things as root.tar.gz (still speaking about Ben's stuff)). I also tried to boot with Ben's kernel but with an NFS root, but I did not succeed (with linux.a-out it hangs on "Booting linux", with tftpboot.img it ignores the nfsroot parameter) Could anyone help me? thanks. -- . Simone Caldana - System and Network Manager at Vitaminic spa . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simone.caldana.org .
