Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 03:30 -0500, Colin wrote:I don't have a null modem cable lying around to do this. I could always run out and buy one. Is it easy to find a DB9-to-RS-422 cable for connecting to an Old World Mac's serial port? It would be easier than setting up another PC just to capture output.
All right, I still can't boot the LiveCD even after discovering the "doataraid" parameter (didn't do anything) and switching my Linux disk from secondary master to primary slave, thinking that might do something. While booting Darik's Boot and Nuke (which is Linux-based), it told me that support for my drive controller (HPT372N) was experimental. Only one of my disks appeared, and it wasn't the one I needed erased.
I could probably get some more answers if I could capture the nofb kernel's output as it booted. Is there any way to send output to a printer, or at least have it pause after each page of text so I can read it? (I've only been able to make out "no known IDE timings," but that's not much help on its own.)
google for the "serial console howto", boot with a serial console and use a terminal program like minicom on another box to read (and save) the boot messages.
I do have a parallel printer, but when I booted the LiveCD with "gentoo-nofb console=lp0," output was redirected but nothing came out of my printer. This should work, since I did a similar thing with MS-DOS 6.22 waaaaaaay back in the day ("copy file.txt lpt1:").
-- Colin
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