[Soekris] Cfcard boot problems

[Bill Maas]

Hello,

from /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz (on Ubuntu):

"
 0x00   "Internal error". This code is generated by the sector
read routine of the LILO boot loader whenever an internal
inconsistency is detected. This might be caused by corrupt
files. Try re-building the map file. Another possible cause for
this error are attempts to access cylinders beyond 1024 while
using the LINEAR option. See section "BIOS restrictions" for more
details and for how to solve the problem.
"

I've had the same screenful of 00's in the past, but I can't
recall how I solved the problem. Maybe try booting from the
net using an NFS partition as /, and then configure the card.
You will then be accessing the CF diractly through the Soekris'
BIOS, which might eliminate potential trouble, e.g. with how
the BIOS sees the disk. Perhaps Lilo can't find the kernel
due to different C/H/S translation. I'm not sure about whether
that could be the problem, but I can't find a specific "can't
find the kernel image" error code, so Lilo might use 0x00 for
that too.

Bill

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:18 +0100, Attilla De Groot wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I recently bought a Soekris 4801 (266Mhz, 256mb). Very nice hardware.  
> I have tried to boot it with a cfcard for the past week, but I'm not  
> able to get it booting.
> 
> I'm using gentoo as linux distribution and I did a install as I have  
> did alot of times. I have a flash card reader that I have connected  
> to my server where I'm doing the gentoo install (/dev/sdb). I  
> partitioned the cfcard, just one ext2 partition and I went in to the  
> chroot of my install and run lilo.
> 
> Basic setup right ? :)
> 
> Well I tried to boot this cfcard, but I only got a screen full of 00  
> 00 00 00. So I check my configuration over and over and I can't find  
> any mistakes as far as I can see. So I tried Grub as a bootloader,  
> but when I tried to boot this I got the message "harddisk error".  
> This morning I bought a new cf card in case the old one is somehow  
> broken, but this didn't solve the problem.
> 
> Here are my configs:
> 
> stofzuiger flash # cat etc/lilo.conf
> lba32
> 
> # MBR to install LILO to:
> boot = /dev/sdb1
> disk = /dev/sdb
>       bios = 0x80
> map = /boot/.map
> #install = /boot/boot-text.b
> 
> prompt
> timeout=30
> 
> vga = normal
> 
> image = /boot/kernel-2.6.18-r2
>          root = /dev/hda1
>          label = Soekris
>          append = "console=ttyS0,9600n81 root=/dev/hda1"
> #        read-only       # Mount read-only
> 
> 
> 
> stofzuiger flash # cat boot/grub/grub.conf
> #
> # Sample boot menu configuration file
> #
> 
> # Boot automatically after 30 secs.
> timeout 30
> 
> # By default, boot the first entry.
> default 0
> 
> # For booting GNU/Linux
> title  GNU/Linux
> kernel /kernel-2.6.18-r2 root=/dev/hda1
> 
> # title Install GRUB into the hard disk
> root    (hd0,0)
> setup   (hd3)
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I did wrong of how I can sole the problem ?
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> Attilla
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