Bug 84454

Summary:	2005.0 (pre) 2.4 kernel doesn't contain gs1280 console support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aron Griffis (RETIRED) <agriffis>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Alpha Porters <alpha>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	tcort
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Alpha
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-07 17:03:14 UTC

aboot> b /boot/gentoo-2.4 initrd=/boot/gentoo-2.4.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=zisofs loop=/zisofs noudev devfs cdroot dokeymap console=srm
aboot: loading uncompressed /boot/gentoo-2.4...
aboot: loading compressed /boot/gentoo-2.4...

I don't see anything at this point, which suggests that the srm console support is missing, I think...

Comment 1 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-12 05:55:47 UTC

Have you tried the 2005.1 livecd?

Comment 2 Thomas Cort (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-19 16:27:54 UTC

Have you tried the 2006.0 livecd?

Comment 3 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-20 09:33:08 UTC

Please test newer Live-CDs as Thomas suggested.