Hi Matt, You mentioned that you had emBSD running on the 4501 previously. I have a few questions for you.
What is your opinion of emBSD? What made you decide to try out LEAF? Do you have a comparative opinion? If so, what do you think? Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Stockdale Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] LEAF Newbie - Questions reguarding 4501 Bering install As is usual, I got it working all of 15 seconds after I sent this out. Turns out I shouldn't have fdisked it, just used "mkdosfs /dev/hde" Matt On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:09:36PM -0400, Matt Stockdale wrote: > I've searched the archives to some extent, but I couldn't find anything relevant.. If however, I missed something, please point me in the right direction.. > > I'm attempting to install Bering rc3 onto a CF card, which will go into my soekris 4501. I'm using RedHat 7.2 running on my IBM thinkpad (which has a CF adapter built into it) to place the files on the CF. However, the 4501 just refuses to boot it. > > I've followed the instructions at http://www.franzdoodle.com/bering/net4501_cf.txt, and also the very similar set at http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-cvs-commits@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00074. html. > > I wasn't sure how the CF was supposed to be made bootable as listed in the franzdoodle docs, there was no mention of running syslinux on the CF (which I did anyways), and I even tried adding "serial 0 19200" to the top of syslinux.cfg, to see if it was even booting syslinux, which is doesn't appear to be. > > the CF I'm using is a Transcend 32mb that worked fine w/ emBSD. > > I used linux fdisk to partition it w/ 1 partition, spanning the whole CF, of type "FAT16" (hde1), and made the partition bootable. I copied all the files over from the floppy image, replaced the kernel w/ one I compiled (2.4.19) w/ serial support and serial console support built in, copied over the ide and natsemi modules, and edited added the ttyS0 getty to inittab and securetty.. > > Any idea where I can start troubleshooting? > > Thanks, > Matt > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Matt Stockdale Sr. Network Engineer - logicworks.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dura lex, sed lex" > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Stockdale Sr. Network Engineer - logicworks.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dura lex, sed lex" ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
