[Soekris] Soekris net5501 boot delay - SOLUTION (for me)

[Marco Pamio]

from BIOS:

set ConMute=Enabled

This allow GRUB to continue to boot if the serial cable is not connected.
For me it worked (I use ZeroShell (www.zeroshell.net) as Captive Portal).
--
Marco Pamio
University of Udine - Italy


worksoft ha scritto:
> So, here is what happens:
> I've switched from net4801 to a new net5501. I am using the same HDD as
> before which worked find under 4801.
> So regardless of the grub/lilo - is definitely something with 5501 - for
> my case anyways. I have swapped then to net4801 and the thing runs fine -
> it boots (hot/cold) without the need of serial console.
>
>   
>> java at neposoft.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Confirm , same happens here,
>>> I shut down my box, and when plugged in, I waited like 5 min and nothing
>>> happened.
>>> Once I connected my null serial onto my monitor, it started to  boot up.
>>> Hopefully we get a hint of what is going on.
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> We have a Soekris net5501 using a Slackware distribution on it.
>>>> However,
>>>> if there is no serial cable attached, we encounter a boot delay of
>>>> about
>>>> 10 minutes. Is there a BIOS setting or something to circumvent this
>>>> behaviour?
>>>>         
>> Sounds like the bootloader (is Slackware still using lilo?) is waiting
>> for a console to be ready before booting.  Can you post your lilo.conf
>> (or grub.conf if they switched to grub)?
>>
>> Darrick
>> --
>> Darrick Hartman
>> DJH Solutions, LLC
>> http://www.djhsolutions.com
>>
>>     
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