Messages in this thread | | | From | Hermann Himmelbauer <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop - Kernel bug? | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:31:37 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 12:21, John Bradford wrote: > > On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53, Nuno Silva wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > > > > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after: > > > > INIT: Entering runlevel:3 > > > > > > > > The next line is: > > > > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error > > > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > > ... > > > > > > > > That's it. > > > > > > Maybe you striped too much and didn't include *any* console type > > > (serial, vga or framebuffer)? :) > > > > Well - by chance we found another old Laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 350 (the > > old was model 340) and found a RAM extension, so we have no 36MB RAM. > > > > But - guess what: The error still persists! > > > > I am quite clueless - maybe it has something to do with the IDE > > subsystem? We put a 4GB 2.5'' HD in this old Laptop, but the harddisk is > > correctly recognized by Linux (also Partition check), grub is also > > working and it Linux also mounts the partition. > > > > Is there any way to get more information out of the kernel? > > What happens if you with with init set to be a shell? E.G. init=/bin/bash
Well, I would really like to try this - but it seems that this laptop needs a special keyboard driver. It has a german keyboard layout and there is no way to get some special characters, especially "/".
Normally with german keyboards, "/" is mapped on the "-" key, but not on this one - some keys are simply dead, I can also not get the "[" and "\" etc. In "grub" there seems to be no way cut&paste the "/" from "root=/dev/hda3"
I will try to generate a bootdisk and append it with "rdev".
Best Regards, Hermann
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