[Soekris] NET4501 and Linux problem

[Ted Phelps]

Eternity writes:
> I have been installing Linux on net4501, after the Sourceforge project 
> "Linux on net4501". The problem I get is that when LILO loads the kernel,
> I see:
> 
> Loading Linux...........
> 
> and wheep. The box reboots itself, and then it does the same thing again.
> BUT. It does work sometimes. I erase the flash card, makes fdisk again, 
> formats and put all files there, and then it works. It can work for
> several reboots, but then out of a sudden it stops working as normal..

One interesting thing to note is that the standard LILO build actually
writes to the disk on every boot.  I compile it with the -DREADONLY flag
(see the Makefile) to prevent this; I'd previously experienced some
issues which appear to have been caused by that write.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
-Ted