Chris Chiapusio wrote:
> This is my first time working witha net booting workstation and i'm
> having a problem w/ the install kernel booting on a Challenge S.
>
> I saw the mention in the mail archive and attempted to do as it instructs,
> but alas, I have had no success.
>
> the kernel says this on boot:
> SGI Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.00
> Keyboard timeout
> Keyboard timeout
> tty00 at 0xbfbd9838 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
> tty01 at 0xbfbd9830 (irq = 21) is a Zilog8530
> <snip>
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
> Adv: done running setup()
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
>
> and freezes there.
>
> now what i've done regarding the instructions on the web site are:
> [root@outland dev]# pwd
> /usr/src/sgi/installfs/dev
> [root@outland dev]# ls -al tty* console*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:16 console -> ttyS0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty00 -> ttyS0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Feb 10 16:21 tty01 -> ttyS1
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 1 May 11 1998 tty1
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 May 11 1998 tty2
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 May 11 1998 tty3
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 May 11 1998 tty4
> crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 May 11 1998 tty5
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 64 Feb 10 16:16 ttyS0
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 65 Feb 10 16:13 ttyS1
>
You should link /dev/ttyS1 to /dev/console and all will be fine.
Richard
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