[Soekris] NET4501 and Linux problem

[Albert Dengg]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:34:55PM +0100, Eternity wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 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..
> 
> Any ideas?
have you tried to pass a console=ttyS0,19200n8 to the kernel ?
that should give you a console output to the serial port give that you
have not changed the default settings and the used kernel is compiled
for serial console.

yours
albert

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Albert Dengg <a_d at gmx.at>