On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Rich Schneck <rschn...@speakeasy.net>wrote:
> I can't wait to be done with floppies. > I've been using a Bering uClibc version of LEAF for a little over a year now booting from a CD with all of the modules on the CD instead of a floppy (that was fun) so there are no other media to go kaput. It's great except that I can't help but think that it's using more power than it should and I can't update the software without burning a new CD. For instance, I'd like to add DHCP. I could just add it manually but I power the system down when not in use so I would lose that config each time and would have to manually add it over and over. No fun. A couple months ago, I added an ASUS WL330GE for wireless, which works great with the USB power adapter. However, I'm seriously considering getting a Linksys WRT54GL and moving to OpenWRT. Lower power, upgrade from 10 to 100Mbit (woo!), and a much smaller package. The downside is that I would have a fixed system config :-( > Anyhow, my hardware is an old Abit BH6 motherboard with P3-500 processor. > I basically have the same - ASUS CUBX-E mobo with a P3-1000 underclocked to 500MHz. > For some reason this computer hangs at the point where you see Booting the > kernel. I've tried the i486 and the i686 packages with no success. > Try the -s option to syslinux if that's what you're using. -s Install a "safe, slow and stupid" version of syslinux. This version may work on some very buggy BIOSes on which syslinux would otherwise fail. If you find a machine on which the -s option is required to make it boot reliably, please send as much info about your machine as you can, and include the failure It's slow and stupid but it works. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
