Hi, [del] >> Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 > >*** This is the point you get 5 seconds to start editing the parameters. >I guess if you specify root=/dev/ram0 or something then it will boot >from the ramdisk, rather than trying to boot from /dev/sda3.
Right, now I can even boot over network: 0 > setenv load-base 1000000 ok 0 > setenv real-base c00000 ok 0 > boot net: LOAD: Waiting 60 seconds for Spanning Tree BOOTP R = 1 BOOTP S = 1 FILE: /tftpboot/wehrle/vmlinuz-prep.initrd Load Addr=0x1000000 Max Size=0xf000000 Packet Count = 100 [snipped the packet count lines] loaded at: 01000400 01554FF4 relocated to: 00800000 00D54BF4 zimage at: 0080A94C 0093DC0A initrd at: 0093E000 00D4AB7A avail ram: 00400000 00800000 Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/ram Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel Total memory = 256MB; using 512kB for hash table (at c0300000) Linux version 2.6.8-powerpc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-11)) #1 Sun Oct 3 13:22:21 CEST 2004 PReP architecture IBM planar ID: 000000d5 MPIC at 0xfddc0000 (0x3ddc0000), length 0x00040000 mapped to 0xeffc0000 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/ram OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at effc0000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes) time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.618701 MHz Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 251648k available (1732k kernel code, 1060k data, 164k init, 0k highmem) Calibrating delay loop... 397.31 BogoMIPS Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 4146k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "IBM 43P-140 (Tiger1)" PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0b.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0c.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:10.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:12.0 Thermal assist unit not available audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(943920304.671:0): initialized devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API Generic RTC Driver v1.07 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k init 60k pmac 4k chrp 8k openfirmware NET: Registered protocol family 1 And that's it. Seems like the d-i doesn't know that it should use the serial console. BTW, the instructions for booting PREP systems in the debian installation manual aren't quite right, they are missing the "net:" string. If the TFTP-server is setup right, the firmware can figure out the rest, so giving the server IP, the name and the IP should not be necessary and I would try `boot net:` first. [del] >It should never ask the console question again unless you change the >config (plug in a mouse for example), unless your nvram battery is a >bit flat of course! This seems to be the case. But it really simplifies things, as I've never been able to warm-boot anything ;-) Only a cold boot helps. Maybe Daniel should remove the battery to reset things completely? Anyway, without your site, Leigh, I would still have a big doorstop only, thanks again, CU, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormweg 24 |listening to: Suicide Drive (The Deep Eynde) 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Public Pervert (Interpol) Clé De Contact (Metal Urbain)