FWIW, my classic does the same thing on a serial boot with normal floppys, no tftp.
I don't have a monitor either. :( Someone did mention that you do need a keyboard on
the serial boot to hit enter, but that was supposedly for after you insert the
ramdisk floppy. Worth a shot though, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.
Dave
--- John Stoffel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I've got a stack of Classics at home, some of which actually work.
> One is my main box right now and works fine, with RH 6.0 installed.
> It's also got the latest 2.2.13 kernel installed.
>
> Now I'm trying to boot another classic which only has a serial
> console, no CDROM or Floppy. I've got the tftp.img setup in /tftpboot
> on the main machine, and I can do either of:
>
> boot net linux serial
>
> boot net linux serial nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/mnt/cdrom/kernels/vmlinux32
>
> but it never quite makes it up past the following point:
>
> Linux version 2.2.5-14BOOT
> .
> .
> .
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> VFS: mounted root (romfs filesystem)
> Warning: unable to open an initial console
> Switching to serical console., mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-199 for EXT2 FS 0.56,
> 95/08/09
> Linux Ext2 filesystem format
> Filesystem label=
> 80 inodes, 300 blocks
> 15 blocks (5.0%) reserved for super user.
> First datablock=1
> Block size=1024 (log=0)
> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> 1 Block group
> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> 80 inodes per group
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>
>
> And here it hangs. I don't have a spare monitor I can use on the
> booting system, though I do have spare keyboards and mice, so maybe I
> need to just start hitting keys at this point.
>
> I've looked at the RH site for updates, but the only ones are for
> floppy boot images.
>
> Any hints on where I'm going wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> John
> John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies
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