[Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time

[Balazs Nagy]

You need to have the serial speed the same in bios, boot loader and kernel. 

All the best,
Balazs

-----Original Message-----
From: Bent <bbagger at gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:21:18 
To:"Soekris Tech" <soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com>
Subject: [Soekris] 5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time


Hi list

I have got my net5501 up and running as expected with a Gentoo Linux
installed on a 8GB CF card.

The mystery arises when I disconnect the serial console (an old
laptop) and reboot the 5501 so that it can run stand-alone. This is -
after all - my main reason for getting the 5501 in the first place.

The mystery - to me, at least - is that the box does not finish the
initial boot, but hangs in GRUB's stage 1. As soon as I re-insert the
serial cable, the boot menu from GRUB appears and the boot process
continues and completes satisfactorily.

It is most likely something with my GRUB installation/configuration,
but not being a GRUB eagle I hope that one of you can help me get past
this hurdle.

When I installed GRUB in the MBR I used these commands:

leopold# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

My /boot/grub/menu.lst file is attached below. It does not matter
whether or not the two lines about the serial console are active or
not. (The i686 is just a title, the kernel is actually built for i586)

Just a thought: Could it be something on the serial interface, a
missing signal or something?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Regards,

Bent

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# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second, etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted
timeout 8
# Setup a serial console
#serial --unit=0 --speed=19200
#terminal serial

title Gentoo Linux 2.6.22 i686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1

title Gentoo Linux 2.6.22 i686 (Old)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda1
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