On 05/30/2016 11:05 AM, Stefan Niestegge wrote: > I was able to boot the 4.1.20-mac-scsi+ kernel
Good. > Now the hen/egg problem comes up. The Mac boots up, and i can only look > at the screen and wait for it to enter screensaving mode. Yeah, typing is rather difficult without keyboard support ;). >> On 05/30/2016 03:05 AM, Finn Thain wrote: >>> Without ADB, you will need a network login service (e.g. sshd) and/or >>> serial console. The getty on /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 used to be >>> configured in /etc/inittab, but I never tried that with systemd. > > I can't login via serial, nor telnetd or sshd because none is configured. For serial, you need to pass the necessary parameters to the kernel command line in your boot loader, see: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/working_with_the_serial_console >> Am 30.05.2016 um 08:26 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: >> Just pass "console=ttyS0,19200,8n1" on the console and you're set. >> >> There is no special requirement to get the serial console work with >> systemd, it's just configured as read-only by default, e.g. you >> just get the boot messages. But just passing the above parameters >> will spawn a login shell on ttyS0. >> >> > How can i do that without keyboard? I have a PC with Linux and RS232 as > well as a cable to connect to modem jack of the Mac. > The Mac is also connected to Ethernet as well as my PC. These options are passed on the kernel command line, i.e. *before* booting the kernel. Which bootloader are you using? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
