Duncan Kennington wrote: > On 01/03/07, Ted S. Letofsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After months of not touching it, seeing the listserve alive with content >> regarding the Multia has caused me to pull mine back out and attempt a >> clean boot and install of my own. > > Motivation for me also! > >> I continue to have issues that I saw a while ago. >> >> When I reach the point where aboot starts, the machine hangs at the >> following. >> "aboot: starting kernel boot/vmlinuz with arguements ramdisk_size=16384 >> root=/dev/ram devfs=mount,dall" >> >> the version of SRM I am running is BL5 V3.8-3 Aug 10 1995 > > I had the same problem, but listened and watched and eventually saw > the keyboard lights flash and heard the HDD being accessed. I think > it's been mentioned in other threads, but not clearly, but if you get > this far, it IS booting, but you can't see it, because the install > kernel doesn't support TGA framebufffer for console. >
It does now with etch -- I've done it both ways. > I had to rustle up a null modem cable and ran > >>>> boot dka400 -fl 1 > > Where dka400 is my CDROM with the etch-netinst.iso. Flags 1 puts the > console on ttyS0, at 9600,N81. > That's amazing you got a complete install from the netinst.iso --- I wonder what the difference is between that and the netboot install. I tried the netboot over and over until Marc posted about the ethernet driver problem, and then looking at the syslog I saw that was what was happening with mine -- the multia lost it's net connection right after downloading the base packages and couldn't pick it up again. I finally installed it from a full CD install and manually loaded the de4x5 driver. > Fiddling a bit with the VT100 settings in Hyperterminal (my laptop has > only windows), I finally got the installer up. > > The install took AGES (two days, but that's with me going to work and > bed between answering questions). > > Once installed, I installed SSH and now run it headless. > > Will be interested to hear if the serial console works for you too. > > Regards, > Duncan > > -- Harmon Seaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]