[Soekris] Problem getting started with 4801 & monowall

[Falcor]

Actually it isn't necessary. The iso that you are imaging is already 
bootable... it is an iso...so no need to change anything.

My Soekris 4801 was running BIOS 1.21 and I updated to 1.28 (apparently 
I missed a few memos.)  After setting the BootDrive to 80 in the BIOS 
and the terminal to 9600bps to support the terminal of the new version 
of m0n0 it works great.  CF boots just fine, as does 1.3b1 and the 
atheros card works great.

 

Greg Shenaut wrote:

>On Jan 3, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
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>>You didn't mention decompressing the m0n0wall .img file; is that
>>an omission from the description, or did you miss that step?
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>No, I did do that.
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>On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
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>>Did you install a bootstrap and set the partition to be bootable?
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>No! In fact, I didn't realize that was necessary since I dd'ed the  
>image onto the drive.
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>I guess I "just assumed" that the image included the necessary  
>bootstrap. Could you point me to a description of how to go about  
>putting one on the cf?
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>Thanks,
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>Greg
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>>On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:15:31 -0800
>>Greg Shenaut <gkshenaut at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>Here's what I did.
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>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".
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>>>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.
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>>>The net4801 appears to have the most recent BIOS (128).
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>>>What should I try next?
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>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Greg Shenaut
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