[Soekris] dead 4501?

[Scott Ullrich]

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:43:13 +0200
To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
Subject: Re: [Soekris] dead 4501?
From: h_reuver at mantell.xs4all.nl (Huub Reuver)

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:37:49PM -0400, Matt Stockdale wrote:
> After bringing my 4501 out of retirement (emBSD never worked right for me)
and getting it going w/ the Bering LEAF Distro, it seems to have kicked the
bucket on me.
> 
> Most of the time, when I plug it in, I get nothing on console. Every 6th
or 7th time, I might get snippets of the boot process. On the rare occasion
it gets all the way though booting the linux image, and gives me a prompt, I
can't enter anything.
> 
> As usual, the Power and Error lights are on at boot, and the Error light
shuts off a few seconds after being powered up..
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this before?

>Have you ever tried booting via NFS?
>It seems to me it can be controlled more than booting from a CF-disk. 
>Even though it is less secure in a critical environment. It might just 
>be a bad image on the CF-disk.

>The first thing I should check when the console does not respond is the 
>serial cable. Have you tried to use it with other pc?

>With regards,
>Huub Reuver


  Have you tried a different CF card?  I've had similar results with Flaky
CF cards.

  Hope this helps!

  -SU
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