IBM F50 with a Serial console and other questions

Subject: IBM F50 with a Serial console and other questions
From: Steve Scherbinski (Scherbis@meijer.com)
Date: Fri Oct 29 1999 - 13:24:33 MDT

I've been trying to get CS 1.1 installed on a IBM F50 with only a serial console. The standard initrd disk that works on a B50 with a video card does not display anything on the F50s console. I've grabbed a copy of 2.2.13 and am using that to build boot disks. I have several problems / opportunities or whatever.

1) When building a kernel if I define CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE along with CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE the boot disk will work on a video card based box but not on one with a serial console. To get the serial console working I have to not configure the vga console option. Is there any way to build a boot diskette that will work with any style of console?

2) Once I got the boot disk working on the F50, I can't get the installer to run. My console is on tty0. What I get is:

Yellow Dog Install init vers. 1.1

(lines snipped)

running install...
failed to open /dev/tty1failed

I can't recover from this.

I've been looking for the source for the install init and the install programs, but can't find them anywhere. Are they available anyplace?

3) On another note, I still haven't been able to boot a system directly from the hard drive using quik. Has any progress been made on this?

Thanks... 

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