[ydl-gen] Please help

[Luke Scharf]

Nick Jones wrote:
> Here is the real problem, I have no video card (they don't come with
> them).  I use the serial terminal.  I used to get a prompt once init
> level 3 was reached, and then I could log in (not as root though for
> some wierd reason).  It worked great until today.
>   

Not relevant to the immediate problem, but to allow root to log in on 
the serial port, you can add "ttyS0" to /etc/securetty.

> Now I don't get a prompt anymore.  What I really want is to see the
> boot messages and why it stops or I can't tell what is wrong.  Anyone
> know how to do this?  If I use console=ttys0 or whatever with the
> kernel it does not output boot messages, which is really worthless.
>   

Is the serial-cable known-good?  These kind of things trip me up.

Do you get the yaboot prompt?  Did you ever?  Was 
append="console=ttyS0,57600" ever added to /etc/yaboot.conf.

Can you transplant the hard drive into another XServe and read it from 
there?

-Luke

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