Tiger MPX

[Jarmo Tulonen]

On Thursday 06 February 2003 22:20, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jarmo Tulonen <tulonja at koti.soon.fi> writes:
> > Hello
> >
> > I'm still struggling with the Tyan Tiger MPX (aka S2466).
> > I tested this time with the programs I downloaded from
> > ftp.lnxi.com, compiling from the tar packet and using
> > etherboot 5.1.5 as payload. It loads the kernel from the
> > tftp server but when it should jump to the kernel, it just dies.
> > I also tried with the pre-made rom image from the
> > rpm-package, with the same result.
> > If I load etherboot from floppy, it gets the kernel from
> > the tftp server and starts it up ok.
> > Any ideas how to proceed ?
>
> I can think of two possibilities.
> 1) You don't have serial console support in your kernel,
>    or it is not properly configured so you do not see what is going on.
> 2) You may have run into the recent mkelfImage bug, that I just fixed.
>
>
> Eric

Hello

I just got it to work. My problem was that I was generating
the kernel image with mkelf-linux and not with mkelfImage.
(Actually I did try also mkelfImage at some phase but then I didn't
have the console=ttyS0 option appended. So it worked but I 
didn't know it :-)

Thank you for your reply

Jarmo