can you use memtest to valid your memory? there is one option in memtest to enable support for LinuxBIOS and serial console.....
YH On 12/15/05, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, with some help from Yinghai today, I finally managed to make my own > working LinuxBIOS image, and boot it on the s2881. Fantastic! > > It cut boot time roughly in half - and that's without doing any optimizing of > the init startup sequence, which now takes up the bulk of the bootup time. > > Anyway. Once the system booted, I tested network access and a few other > things, and everything seemed to work just fine. > > But 10 minutes later the machine was no longer pingable, and I didn't get any > response on the serial console anymore either. > > I shut it down, and restarted with LinuxBIOS. At this point, it would not > boot anymore - as you can see in the attached serial log, it just decides to > restart its fallback image just after init starts, which then hangs the box. > > Any clues? This is the latest svn revision (2145), with Etherboot 5.4.1 + > FILO to boot from the local SATA drive. > > I rebooted with the proprietary BIOS, which brought the box up just fine > (after complaining that it had to reset the CMOS). It started re-syncing the > software RAID array right after boot though, so maybe that is related to the > linuxBIOS hang upon boot, which is right after the kernel starts the RAID > devices? > > I won't be able to work more on the box for the next week or two > (holidays...), but I thought I'd better signal this now. > > Thanks, > Ward. > > -- > Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator > > > -- > LinuxBIOS mailing list > LinuxBIOS@openbios.org > http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > -- LinuxBIOS mailing list LinuxBIOS@openbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios