[Soekris] PXE Boot Issue

[Hal Vaughan]

Okay, the issue was the serial port speed.

While there are several wiki articles on this situation, there is nothing in the wiki that states that I need to specify the speed in the pxe config file. Once I did that, it worked okay.

Hal


On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote:

> I'm trying to install Debian Squeeze on a Net5501.  I'm doing a PXE boot and it's reading the pxelinux.0 file from my iMac (running OS X 10.6.6) and once PXE starts, I get the usual 15-column wide text issue, then I hit <enter> to boot and it starts booting.  Here's what I get from Minicom (the newline positions may be off, Minicom didn't show them all):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CD 92 34  
> DHCP.                                                                               CLIENT IP: 172.16.7.226  MASK: 255.255.0.0  DHCP IP: 172.16.7.1
> GATEWAY IP: 172.16.7.1 
> 
> TFTP.
> TFTP.
> PXELINUX 4.02 debian-20101014  
> Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al!PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9DEE:0106 via plan 
> AUNDI code segment at 9DEE len 1966
> UNDI data segment at 947D len 9710
> Getting cached packet  01 02 03
> My IP address seems to be AC1007E2 172.16.7.226
> ip=172.16.7.226:172.16.7.12:172.16.7.1:255.255.0.0
> BOOTIF=01-00-00-24-cd-92-34TFTP prefix: 
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-00-24-cd-92-34
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007E2
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007E
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC100
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC10
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/A
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default
> okboot: Loading debian/squeeze/i386/linux.....
> Loading debian/squeeze/i386/initrd.gz.........ready.
> Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> And after that -- nothing.
> 
> I found an email on this list that had a similar problem (<http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2010-January/016344.html>), and it was suggested he upgrade from 1.33 to 1.33c to solve the problem.   I tried upgrading to 1.33c.  (It wasn't easy, had to reset to a 19200 baud and re-send the file many times.)
> 
> Once I got 1.33c in, instead of booting to PXE, I got a message that came up ONLY in the 1st column, printing from bottom to top of the screen, about booting BSD.  Even when I pulled out my CAT5 cable from the box, it did that.
> 
> I don't know what the deal is, but that makes 1.33c unusable, since it's trying to boot BSD and freezes during boot.
> 
> Also in that thread it's mentioned that this is where control is passed to the drive or RAM drive.
> 
> Could I be getting this error because I'm using a type of flash RAM that's not compatible?
> 
> I can't figure out what is going on and what's failing.  Several years ago I set up a couple Soekris boxes and had no trouble making a PXE boot and getting Debian installed, but this time I'm stumbling over a lot of glitches and this one leaves me stumped.
> 
> Any help on this is appreciated!
> 
> 
> Hal
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