[Soekris] soekris boxes & linux

[Tim Barker]

Hi John,

The Soekris boxes see the CF disk as hda not sda. You need to change
/dev/sda to /dev/hda in lilo.conf and run lilo again.

Note that you will need to run lilo with a chroot command (chroot
/mnt/cf lilo -C lilo.conf) as per the pebble.README.

Hope this helps,

Tim

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:37:05 +0100, John P. Looney <valen at tuatha.org> wrote:
>  I got one booting monowall, but Debian is proving trickier.
> 
>  I downloaded Pebble, untarred it onto an ext3 formatted CF card, setup
> the below /etc/lilo.conf, ran lilo under a chroot. The lilo.conf is;
> 
> # My CF writer is /dev/sda
> boot = /dev/sda
> disk = /dev/sda
>   bios = 0x80
> prompt
> delay=2
> timeout=15
> serial=0,38400n8
> lba32
> 
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-pebble
>         root = /dev/hda1
>         append="console=ttyS0,38400n8"
>         label = 2.4.26
>         read-only
> 
>  Alas, the soekris monitor seems to ignore my flash card. strings on
> /dev/sda shows that lilo is written alright.
> 
>  "boot 80" from the monitor is no help;
> 
> > boot 80
> 
> No Boot device available, enter monitor.
> 
>  I don't even get a lilo prompt. I notice that after a minute or two idle,
> the monitor no longer response to keypresses, and has to be reset. Is this
> usual ? I'm feeding it 12V, which seems to be OK, according to the Net4501
> PDF.
> 
> John
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