Some better information about my situation, now that I'm not as
rushed:
- I have a serial console on port 1 of the Indy, and I'm talking to it
via minicom on my Linux box. WOrks great. Sometimes BRK gets me back
to the PROM, sometimes it just hangs, but I can live with that.
- The boot process goes pretty well, but when I get past the root
mount (using init=/bin/sh), I can't interact with anything.
- I see the `# ' prompt, I get stderr output (!) but the following
commands (which do execute) produce no output:
echo "ttyS0" > /dev/ttyS0
echo "ttyS1" > /dev/ttyS1
echo "cua1" > /dev/cua1
echo "cua0" > /dev/cua0
- If I try to access /dev/console or /dev/tty[1234], I get "can't
create /dev/whatever: Error 19", which seems to be "no such device".
If someone with the appropriate tools could build me a static tail
binary, it'll make the experimentation go a fair bit faster.
I'll be back in Ottawa tomorrow afternoon for a few days, so I'll be
able to work on the console, but since I'll be travelling a _lot_ over
the next few weeks, having the serial stuff work properly is still
important.
I'm still using the dm@neteng 2.0.12 kernel. Ralf, do you have
anything else built over there you want me to test?
(If it'll help, I can set Miguel and Ralf up with appropriate access
on neon so they can experiment. It'll take a few days, but if it
keeps those precious geek-cycle from going to waste...)
Mike
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