Normal Booting on Dell PE3250

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:06:28PM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> 
> >There's no VGA console support by default.
> 
> My dmesg shows the following output.
> <snip>
> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: <display, VGA> at device 1.0 (no driver attached)
> </snip>
> 
> What is the issue to enable the VGA console in IA64 build?

The issue is that our syscons(4) driver and related hardware driver have
too much PC specific code that breaks on machines that don't have any
PC legacy compatibility. The net effect is that no HP machines work
when syscons is enabled. Hence, syscons is not supported by default.

> 
> But I cannot get the login: prompt on the serial console. What is the
> problem?

You need a getty(8) on the serial line. Boot in single user mode and
update /etc/ttys [ttys(5)]. For example, to enable a getty(8) on the
first serial interface, make sure /etc/ttys contains something like:
	ttyu0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net