My lucky day

[Christian Iseli]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:20:30 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
> You booted with -fl 0 the first time, did you?

No, with -fl 2, as suggested in Jay's email

> >> Is there any chance you have kbd/mouse hooked up via KVM?
> >> Sometimes those have caused problems.  
> > 
> > No kvm, just direct connection.  After using the serial console, I
> > was able to install from the CD with no problem.  The system just
> > rebooted after install, and seems to run contentedly :)  
> 
> With working keyboard?

No, I still boot using the serial console and then go in through ssh

When the machine rebooted after the install, the graphic console was
blue (it turns red when the console gets redirected to serial from the
kernel) and the aboot prompt was there (complaining that the default A
line was not defined in aboot.conf).  The keyboard was not working.  I
reset the machine, and then the keyboard worked again in SRM.  I then
booted with no option (from the harddisk), and aboot complained again
about the missing A line, but the keyboard was still functional at that
point, so I entered 0 and the system booted (with console=ttyS0).