[Soekris] net4801 and hard drives

[Wayne Walker]

Hi all,

I've been trying without success to load linux on a hard drive on the
net4801.

I've tried two methods:

1. use PXE boot to run the installation of CentOS4.4 over the network

2. Installing it on the hard drive via a notebook computer with a
Pentium class processor, then disabling the vga tty's and enabling the
serial one (in inittab and in grub).

the PXE boot boots, loads the initrd and spews messages to the screen,
but then the kernel fails to load.

The installation on the notebook works mostly, but when grub boots, ti
says loading stage 1.5, then blanks the serial terminal and does nothing
else...

Has anyone gotten a modern linux installed on the net4801 on a hard
drive?

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