On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:01:01PM +0200, Arne Nordmark wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > >>I hooked up a serial terminal instead. The kernel booted, but after the > >>root file system was mounted there were no more messages, so I guess the > >>installation program output is going somewhere else. > > > > > >If you connect a serial cable, you must disconnect the keyboard. > > > > which I did (or used console=ttya), but the point was that I got all > the kernel messages on the serial terminal up to the point where the > root filesystem was mounted, but I did not see anything from dbootstrap.
When you say "or used console=ttya", do you mean you physically disconnected the keyboard? That's very very important. And yes, it will make a difference between the kernel showing to serial and the dbootstrap not. I just did a serial cosnsole install two days ago using my tftp image, on an ultrasparc 30, with no problems. So it isn't a bug in the dbootstrap program. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/