[Soekris] pxegrub problem with 4801

William Estrada MrUmunhum at popdial.com
Mon Jul 24 20:37:58 UTC 2006


Might I sugjest installing Grub on your CF card on a seperate partions?

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William Estrada

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> I'm not sure exactly where the problem is, but just in case...
> 
> To avoid quickly killing my CF card as part of my education, I thought
> it would be Good to boot my 4801 using pxegrub.  I'm having mixed
> results, though.
> 
> For starters, while I can get the soekris to boot using pxegrub, I found
> that unless I use the 0.93 version hacked for booting OpenBSD (I wonder
> if I found this while trying to use openbsd, pfsync, and carp) I find
> that once grub loads, the soekris emits the grub messages at the rate of
> about 1cps.
> 
> The other issues I am having are probably not soekris-specific, but I'll
> mention them anyway.
> 
> I'm running ISC DHCPD3 on a FreeBSD box, and while I have the tag 150
> stuff apparently properly defined in my dhcp.conf file, I get a log
> message about how the dhcp client does not accept options.  This means I
> can't send a menu.lst file over there.  I figure this is a grub problem.
> 
> My goal at the moment is to mount/offer an ISO image on my dhcp/tftpboot
> server and boot/run the box from this; once I get the configuration
> stablized I'll write the image to a CF disk.
> 
> Harlan
> 
> 


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