On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Kevin Jordan wrote:

> I'm a bit confused.  Tonight I preformed a fresh install using the 2.0
> rescue disc linked here recently on a Raq2 with a new Samsung 120GB  
> drive.
>  Followed along on the LCD and everything appeared to go well.  The
> machine rebooted, "Starting up...", then nothing but a blank LCD.
>

 From Andreas' how-to <http://www.aironaut.ch/content/view/19/53/>

- for the panel to run
     /dev/MAKEDEV panel
     rm /dev/lcd
     ln -s /dev/panel0 /dev/lcd

but you need to get in somehow for that edit :(  I didnt' try it on  
my Qube2, I leave paneld off anyway due to the load.

I guess you could add it to the boot CD script someplace.

> Without a serial console to patch into, how do I know what the IP  
> address
> of the machine is and whether or not it is even coming up?  Is the LCD
> just dead for this 2.0 release?  The HD churns for a while similar  
> to the
> startup procedure I was used to on 1.6.1, but there is no feedback  
> on the
> LCD -- which I miss dearly!
>

FWIW, I could not see that the 2.0 install pulled an IP successfuly  
from my DHCP server, I had to set one by hand thru console.
I'm not sure if that experience is typical or not, but at least one  
other poster asked about it I think.

Can you look at your router DHCP table and see if someone new has  
shown up?  According to my router, no one did....

> Thanks for any and all responses,

Sorry I don't have a good fix.  It's a little hard without a serial  
console.

Brian