[Soekris] Re: Cannot boot 4501 from CF

[Sharad Mittal]

Have you taken care of the serial output. The kernel
has to be passed parameters from lilo in lilo.conf so
that it uses serial console as the output.
Sample lilo.conf
prompt
timeout="50"
boot="/dev/hda"
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
compact
serial=0,19200n8
default="linux"

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
        label="linux"
        initrd="/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img"
        read-only
        root="/dev/hda1"
        append="console=ttyS0,19200n81"

hope it helps,
Sharad

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> From: "Jeff Powell" <jeff at vse.com>
> To: <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:54:39 -0800
> Subject: [Soekris] Cannot boot 4501 from CF
> 
> 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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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:25:43 -0600
> From: David Young <dyoung at ojctech.com>
> To: soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Cannot boot 4501 from CF
> Reply-To: dyoung at pobox.com
> 
> 
> Does it stop at the same place, every time? Do you
> ever see any messages
> from the kernel, at all?
> 
> I ask because the NetBSD bootloader used to have a
> bug which corrupted
> the kernel as it loaded. The kernel would not get
> very far before it would
> trap to the debugger with an invalid instruction or
> a bad pointer. Maybe
> OpenBSD's bootloader is affected by the same bug.
> See the thread "booting
> NetBSD on net4521" in the archives for this list.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 10:54:39AM -0800, Jeff
> Powell 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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