Hi Florian,
I re-ran the Hardhat installer with setup-1.9.2.noarch.rpm in place of
1.9.1. (The installer seemed to have a problem with the root password I
entered.) I can now boot the Indigo2 with the 2.3.21 kernel (boot vmlinux
root=/dev/sdb1 console=ttyS0) and see the kernel boot-up messages in the
serial console. The last messages visible are:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
Unable to find swap-space signature [this message appears four times]
At this point, the hard drive is silent, and telnet from another machine
elicits this response:
Hard Hat Linux Hard Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan)
Kernel 2.3.21 on a mips
login:
My attempted root login is then declared invalid. For my next trick I'll
try pre-loading installfs/etc/passwd with a valid account, then re-running
the installer. Is there any reason this shouldn't work?
Thanks,
Mike
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