[Soekris] Cannot boot 4501 from CF

[Chris Cappuccio]

You probably need to tell the kernel to use the serial port as a console.
at the boot> prompt, try this:

set tty com0
stty com0 19200

You can configure the OpenBSD kernel without wscons and with serial console
support, check out Henric's page at http://home.attbi.com/~henric/

Jeff Powell [jeff at vse.com] wrote:
> I have installed OpenBSD 3.1 on a Lexar 128 MB CF.  I did this by using
> an IDE CF adapter installed as a Primary Master on a PC.  I booted the
> PC from the floppy (with the PC's hard drive disconnected) and installed
> OpenBSD normally.  After the install is finished I can successfully boot
> the PC from the CF card.  However, when I put the card in the 4501, it
> doesn't work.  It gets to the OpenBSD boot> prompt, then prints a few
> lines and stops.  Here is what it says:
> 
> Booting hd0a:/bsd: 3887104+335872+823752+[141972+178084]=0x61e408
> start=0xe0100020
> Entry point at 0x100020
> 
> There is sits, and it doesn't boot the kernel.  It can see the
> filesystem; I can type ls at the boot> prompt and I can see everything
> that should be there.
> 
> What's wrong and how can I fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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