Bug#504721: Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM

[Frans Pop]

I've just tested the committed changes for i386 and s390.

For i386 'console-type' correctly returns virtual when booted in 
VirtualBox. I've not tested serial, but am confident that will work as 
well.

On s390 'console-type' returns nothing, which also seems correct as that 
is neither a virtual or serial console, but a dumb console. As we only 
test for '= serial' in reopen-console and everything is properly quoted 
this is no problem. Maybe a test for dumb could be added in the future.

So I'll go ahead and upload the new rootskel.

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#504721: Console broken on debian-installer on Sparc LDOM

[Mike Grice]

Package: rootskel
Version: 1.69
Severity: important

Hi rootskel maintainers :)

I've been trying to get debian-installer (lenny) working on a Sun LDOM
(i.e., SPARC, sun4v).  I'm having some trouble, though.  When the
installer boots, you get a mono console, and the arrow keys, tab, and
enter don't do as expected (enter scrolls down the screen, tab does a
tab, etc) rather than moving through the menu.

I booted with BOOT_DEBUG=3 to pin down where this is happening.
Looking at /etc/inittab, first, debian-installer-startup is run.  I
run this and the console still behaves normally.  When I run the
second script, debian-installer, the menu launches and my keyboard
doesn't drive the menu any more.

Theres some discussion on why this might be happening and methods I've
tried on debian-boot (Frans Pop has been very helpful!), and it looks
like it may be something to do with reopen-console.  I'm not an expert
on the console though, so there may be something I've missed.  As the
scripts are run via reopen-console then sourced (debian-installer
being a wrapper round a bunch of sourced scripts), I'm unable to
recreate the exact environment.  If I don't use reopen-console and I
run debian-installer from the shell on my own, it works as expected.

I've raised this bug on Frans' recommendation, and the thread on
debian-boot is here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2008/11/msg00013.html

I'm happy to try out any recommendations you have on this kit while I
still have it (its try-n-buy, its actually a Sun T6230 blade).

Many thanks,

Mike.



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