David Eastcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Perhaps something missing in the boot kernel?

you got it. We don't have serial console handling in the boot kernel.

> I replace the vmlinuz file 
> with the one from my workstation ( after making room) and the kernel messages 
> started appearing on the serial port.  Could not go any further since I did 
> not have a regular kernel matching the network.rdz from any of the boot 
> images that I have, so I suspect that if the stage 1 boot kernel was 
> reconfigured to add the missing built in stuff for console booting that it 
> would work.

you could use blank.img and put a kernel compiled with everything it needs (no
modules). In that case, no need to modify the .rdz


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