Hi All, first post here.

Any news on that topic ?

Can someone confirm astlinux on the Alix 3d3 ?

I am willing to test / support also a beta / trunk version.


Thanks and have a nice day,
Mike



>> The ALIX image was not and probably will not support VGA output.



David Kerr wrote:
> Can you boot into the Alix bios and look for a setting for something
> called MFGPT. Change that setting and try again. I know that this
> setting exists on a 2C3 and does affect booting of Astlinux trunk
> versions, but don't know about 2D3.
>
> Also, Darrick is promising Astlinux 0.7 "real soon now". It might be
> worthwhile waiting for this as there have been many changes.
>
> As you must use VGA display then you should probably stick with the
> geni586 version.... unless you want to build your own from source, in
> which case you could customize the Alix version to point console to VGA
> instead of Serial port, or just use the Alix version with a
> Serial-attached console.
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:01 AM, binary dreamer
> <dreamer.bin...@gm... <mailto:dreamer.bin...@gm...>> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> thanks a lot for your reply.
> i am using the vga output.
> it hangs the boot for ever.
> is there an image for alix 3d3?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Darrick Hartman
> <dhart...@dj... <mailto:dhart...@dj...>> wrote:
>
> I'm not familiar with the 3d3. Are you connected to the serial
> port or
> is there a VGA output? The net5501 image will work on the ALIX
> boards,
> but requires you to change the serial port speed to 19200. If
> you wait
> a little longer, ALIX images are available in trunk which will
> support
> the correct serial port speed for the ALIX boards.
>
> Darrick
>
> binary dreamer wrote:
> > hi. i do have an Alix 3d3 from pc engines and i would like to
> try astlinux.
> > i have downloaded the geni586 version image and the net4801
> and net5501.
> > all of them failed to start anything at all, apart from the
> net5501
> > which starts and says runnix OK booting the kernel and hangs
> over there.
> > any ideas what do i have to do to have a working version of
> astlinux in
> > my machine?
>

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