On Sunday 24 February 2002 08:00 am, you wrote: > >>>>> "guillaume" == Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > guillaume> Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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. > > guillaume> We have the "serial.o" module, it's not enough? What does it > guillaume> lack? > > we need serial built-in into the kernel for serial console to work. > If you have 68kb free in the boot disks, I can change the thing, > othrewise, it is not going to work. notice that the messages than > David is asking about are printed _before_ we have mounted any > filesystem, initrd -> i.e. no way that we are able to load a module > for that time.
Current free space on floppy is 15K. Without adjustments to initial ramdisk, there is no way to get that amount free. Is there a way that stage 2 could initialize for serial port, that way the stage 1 would not be affected? I was not advocating for serial install, just reporting back my results of testing. I am going to try out Pixel's suggestion. Dave
