On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > In normally does not do I/O to the console. Unfortunately, It panics
> > if it finds the screen-card missing.
>
> It shouldnt have a video card dependancy. I run some boxes with no
> video card fine.
>
That's what I thought I could do.
>
> Question 1 is what is the panic text. You might want to write yourself
> a small console driver that instead of serial or screen writes to a
> chunk of ram you can read with the debugger ?
>
> Alan
>
Yes. I'm trying to do that now. I think the BIOS may be telling the
kernel a little white lie. I know that the box will run just fine
if I remove the screen-card after it's up. I also open /dev/null in
../init/main.c if the kernel fails to open an initial console. It
never gets that far, though. Thanks.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.36 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
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