[BusyBox] Can't boot without graphic card

[Thomas Cameron]

Oliver,
	If you use the previous suggestions, and either start a terminal/getty on a 
serial port, or if you tell your boot-loader that a specific serial port is 
your main console, then all will be well.  You simply attack another system 
via a serial "null modem" cable, open up your favorite serial terminal 
program, and you're good to go.

Sincerely,
Thomas Cameron
CEI Systems, Inc.


On Friday 31 January 2003 02:02 pm, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
> 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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