[BusyBox] Can't boot without graphic card

[Oliver Friedrich]

Ok, have found a solution...
I have now included the serial port permanently (not as a module) and
activated "console on serial port". Now the system doesn't reboot. This
works for kernels 2.4.18 & 2.4.20 (others not tested).

But where i can find now my keyboard input? I have a application, that
normaly uses all input on /dev/tty1, but this doesn't work in the current
setup (without vga card).

Any Ideas?

cu,
Oliver



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Damm [mailto:damm at opensource.se]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:08 PM
> To: Oliver Friedrich
> Cc: busybox at busybox.net
> Subject: Re: [BusyBox] Can't boot without graphic card
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I once helped a customer removing a vga controller on their hardware.
> Certain versions of the Linux kernel did not like to boot without the
> VGA controller, but efter several hours of testing I found out that
> newer 2.4 kernels was better than old ones.
>
> I don't remember the exact versions, though.
>
> / magnus
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:13:59 +0100
> "Oliver Friedrich" <oliver at familie-friedrich.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> >
> > i'm new to BusyBox (in fact i'm using it only via the ttylinux mini
> > distribution) and i have a problem:
> >
> > If i'm starting up the box with a graphic card installed all
> works fine, but
> > in case i remove the vga adapter, the system reboots somewhere after the
> > init scripts. I can't get a syslog or something else, because
> i'm running
> > the system out of a ramdisk. Is there perhaps a known problem
> with a part of
> > busybox? Perhaps with init?
> >
> > I can see, that the first init scripts are running fine (without a vga
> > adapter), because the LCDd prints a short message on the LCD,
> but than the
> > system resets and starts again...
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > I'm using:
> > Kernel 2.4.18 with devfs support (no aditional patches)
> > devfs deamon to provide compatibility to the old /dev scheme
> > ttylinux 2.7 (busybox 0.60.5 included)
> > some additional libraries and binaries to use vdr, lirc and lcdproc
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Oliver
> >
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