On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:35:30PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Finally, I managed to get the serial line working. I believe I was > just being fooled by minicom, but I'm not sure. Anyway. Here is a > boot without the keyboard connected. It loops after detecting the > network interfaces.
Okay, I would guess your kernel (minikernel) is damaged. Noramlly the gzip would catch this, but you never know... > Video RAM: Detecting bus width...64 bit > Video RAM: Detecting size...[4MB=NO][2MB=YES] > [NeTTrom] Mapping in /romdev/ide..waiting for disk spin-up.. > [NeTTrom] IDE Disk: LBA supported: total 0x00409980 sectors. > > Press '*' TWICE to enter debug......AutoBoot commencing... > > I'm unable to stop it using '**'. Any clues? Press it in advance, and also press enter afterwards. Then you can download a kernel serially, as documented at: http://www.netwinder.org/howto/Firmware-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.7 Basically, you do: x c000 ---> send the kernel via xmodem j c000 -R
