Alistair Lambie wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2:12pm, Mike Shaver wrote:
> > Subject: init=/bin/sh and serial devices
> > Wierd stuff here.
> > We've got it mountinng the NFS partition and running /bin/sh, but we
> > can't type anything to it at that point.
> > It's kinda weird, because we see the `#' prompt, but stuff I type to
> > it isn't registering.
> >
> > stdin in /dev/cua1, FWIW.
> >
>
> Does your Indy not have a 'head' on it....why are you using
> the serial ports..
>
this brings up the question: do we already have drivers for
the textport? Not to speak of an X-Server? How are we (SGI)
going to handle this? As far as I know we never published
the hardware dependent parts on the X11 distribution, did we?
Martin
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