[Soekris] Newbie Mistake with net4526?

[Joshua ChaitinPollak]

Frank,

On Oct 6, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Frank Cole wrote:

> 3) To PXE boot (the DHCP/TFTP/NFS thing) type "boot f0" (thats a  
> zero).
>

Ah, ok, thats a relieve. I was afraid I was going to have to xmodem a  
new bios or something.


> By the way, I don't really recommend GRUB on the 4526/4826.
>

What would you recommend I use? I didn't want to use fat, so I ruled  
out syslinux, and I ruled out lilo because its old I guess.

>
> After you run fdisk on /dev/hda you will need to lay some sort of a
> filesystem on /dev/hda1 before you starting putting files on there.
> Something like mkdosfs or mke2fs. Then install the bootloader  
> (GRUB, lilo,
> syslinux, etc.)
>

Ok, that's basically what I was planning. Grub wasn't to happy  
though, it kept complaining.


> cramfs.img is really meant to be a file on a filesystem and loaded  
> into ram
> at boot time not written to a disk partition.
>

Hum, ok, the O'Reilly Embedded Linux book I've got implied otherwise,  
and I figured it would be a good choice for flash, since I don't  
intend to write often. I'll try ext2 for now I guess.

Thanks for the speedy response, I'll try this all tomorrow morning.

-Josh