one thing ive learned messing around with different distro's, is that
the buadrate standard is 9600!
many precompiled programs are set to 9600, so do your self a favor.
set your soekris to 9600, and stay there...
my emidiatly thought, is that the soekris bios, works fine.
the pxelinux.0 has some quirks with the terminal that your running,
making it output to a single line.
and i guess when pxelinux.0 hands off to the kernel/initrd, you have
missed a configuration ?
---
after looking at the guide your following, it does not contain
headless serial configuration...
you need to tell the kernel to drop standard vga console outputting,
and output to serial console...
then the guide your refering too, is for amd64 - your 4801 is not 64bit capable!
some of my previous attempts, i also tried loading install files from
NFS share. but i could not make it work, and had to serve a basic
netboot through TFTPd, and install over internet.
furthermore, as far as i recall, ½ a year ago, the state of the
FreeBSD install menu, was buggy and outdated - at best!
i think they call it "sysinstall"... you cant use for stuff like fetching src.
allthough i believe it is still capable of installing a basic system
over the internet... just dont ask it to do any thing fancy, except
the bare minimum... and after install, you most likely have to drop to
a prompt, and do manual adjustments!
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Igalson Jacek - Korpo TP
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new to the Soekris. I try to install FreeBSD on Soekris 4801-48
> with CF memory (8GB). I followed excellent guide for PXE booting
> FreeBSD 9.x:
> http://freebsd.so14k.com/freebsd9_pxe.shtml
>
> To communicate with Soekris I use terminal Minicom (19200baud and 8N1)
> on PC with FreeBSD 9.0.
>
> I got the following output on terminal:
>
>> boot f0
>
> aC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
> npyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
> rl rights reserved.
> e
> te-boot eXecution Environment PXE-2.0 (build 082)
> npyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
> i
>
> :IENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CF D8 F8
> sIENT IP: 192.168.1.45 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.1.10
> eTEWAY IP: 192.168.1.10
> lE Loader 1.00
> o
> silding the boot loader arguments
> nlocating the loader and the BTX
> oarting the BTX loader
> C
>
> I see that in the end of printout cursor jumps to the line just next to >boot
> f0 runs forwards and backwards several times than stops and terminal hangs.
>
> Port Eth0 shows activity, LEDs are on but there is no answer
> for ping and ssh.
>
> Is something wrong with terminal parameters? I use 19200baud 8N1 and
> VT102 or ANSI, is that ok ?
> Or boot loader BTX is working badly.
>
> I would appreciate your advice and help.
> Jacek
>
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