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Hi Stephen, On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 17 August 2009, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > It sounds like the "rsc console" is something different, which could > > > explain what you saw. Maybe we need special handling for this case. > > > > The rsc is much like an iLo or alom. It's just another management > > interface that offers a 'console' interface to manage the OS. I did > > the install using this interface, obtained by running 'break -c'. [...] > Can you find out what /var/run/console-device contains at that point? > I'd expect /dev/ttyS0, but it would be good to know for sure. > You can probably find out by booting with BOOT_DEBUG=3 and then in > /sbin/reopen-console add a 'set -x' plus near the end a 'sleep 30' so > you have time to read the output. [...] > We have solved similar problems in that past. The only thing that's > needed is *some* way of identifying this case. Possibly there's > something in /proc from openprom? We could then do something similar as > was done for powerpc (see the code after "# Set up virtualized..." in > [3]). > > The final option would be to add a dialog that's displayed if we are > uncertain and that just asks what to use. Might be useful for other > cases too. > > Main question is if you're willing and able to do a bit more digging :-) Are you interested in persuing this further? In case you're not, I'm tagging the BR for posterity. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
