[Soekris] Problem getting started with 4801 & monowall

[Steve Holdoway]

Did you install a bootstrap and set the partition to be bootable?

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:15:31 -0800
Greg Shenaut <gkshenaut at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> Hi, in May I bought a net4801-60. I got pulled away from that project  
> before I could actually use it for anything, but over the holidays, I  
> tried to install monowall on it without success.
> 
> Here's what I did.
> 
> I have two SanDisk 512gb cf devices. I downloaded the most recent  
> beta of monowall, and then used a lexar firewire flash reader and dd  
> to install it. I am using a Powerbook, so this involved putting in  
> the firewire cable, unmounting the resulting volume, and then dd'ing  
> to the drive. I was able to read back what I wrote using cmp.
> 
> Next, I put inserted the cf drive into the socket on the soekris and  
> connected using a keyspan usb/serial cable and kermit. I got the boot  
> messages and interacted with the BIOS from the console, but every  
> time I tried to boot the soekris, it eventually stopped with a simple  
> "boot error" message (and no other discernable error report). I tried  
> it with the other Sandisk, and I also tried two other versions of  
> monowall.
> 
> In summary: two different 512G Sandisks, three different versions of  
> monowall, Lexar firewire CF reader, Powerbook, OS/X 10.4.8,  
> net4801-60 : "boot error".
> 
> What I suspect, assuming that I don't have a DOA Soekris, is that  
> there is something wrong with my copying the image onto the cf  
> device. The light on the cf reader blinks when I write, so something  
> is going on with it, but maybe there is some kind of byte order or  
> sector mapping problem, or maybe it's not really writing onto the cf  
> device at all but into a buffer.
> 
> The net4801 appears to have the most recent BIOS (128).
> 
> What should I try next?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg Shenaut
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