I have an oldworld PPC UMAX C500 (603e chip). When I use the vmlinux and initrd.img included on the 1.2-r1 ISO it hangs right after displaying: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI I had debian on here at one time so I know it's good for Linux. Machine has 80MB of memory and a 4 GB SCSI hard drive. Using the mesh scsi card on the motherboard. In BootX the Ramdisk size is set to 26000 More kernel arguments is set to rw I've tried the No video driver option, Force SCSI ON, Force vdeo Settings and use specified RAM Disk set to the initrd.img Workaround is to use a vmlinux from the 1.2 (no -r) release.
A dmesg of your working system would be helpful for this...Umax uses some very oddball serial controllers (on the add on card) which may be causing the problem.
it appears this may be a kernel problem with change that have been made to macserial after speaking with benh. I will keep you informed as I find out more.
Can you please supply us a working dmesg if possible? This is not a kernel issue as I had thought previously.
Alternatively, you can make a kernel without serial support to verify its the serial code
This was tracked down to the PNP option being turned on and it tried to probe serial. Marking this closed as it will be fixed for next ISO kernel release
