[Soekris] linux on the net4501

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> I used 2.4.16 without any patches.  I haven't tried with 2.4.18.
> 
> You said you can boot from a desktop, but does that boot from the serial
> port?

I have successfully run console on serial on both desktop and the net4501.

> 
> And, in lilo.conf:
> disk=/dev/hde
>     bios=0x80
Not quite sure I understand that one.  Looks to me like you mapped 
the first bios drive to /dev/hde?  To make it bootable maybe?


> #serial=0,19200n8 # not needed on soekris
> append="console=ttyS0,19200n8"
Yep, have that too.  Console works fine on both desktop and net4501.  
That's how I found out where it quits booting.  

> 
> 
> If you're using lilo, are you sure the geometry used to write the kernel
> is the same as the soekris is using?
> 

Well, I thought about that.  When I originally started trying to boot 
from the CF card on the net4501, lilo kept dying on me.  Using the linear 
option fixed that, so I am assuming that it is using the same geometry.  

The kernel loads and starts executing, then dies just before it should be 
mounting the root disk read only for disk checking.