Bug#290382: needs serial console support

2005-01-14 Thread John E Clymer
Of course, you do realize you can edit the /etc/aboot.conf file and add the console=ttyS0 to the end of the each line to re-enable boot dka0 -fl 0 aboot will read the same thing from the aboot.conf that it will take in the -flags string. Not that it wouldn't be nice to have some magic in the ab

Bug#290382: needs serial console support

2005-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Actually I noticed that w/o the serial console support base-config still comes up on the serial port I installed to, so the lack of the parameter means I only miss seeing the boot messages. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#290382: needs serial console support

2005-01-13 Thread Joey Hess
Package: aboot-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i It was hard for me to work out that to boot my newly installed alpha with serial console, I needed this command line: >>>boot dka0 -fi "2/vmlinuz" -flags "ro initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/sda3 >>>console=ttyS0" Could aboot-installer be made sma