Hi Darryl,
Imho your digging too deep. GRUB may be a great tool, but for your
purpose it's overdone. Lilo will be able to perform exactly what you
need, and it will perform well. I see no trouble with remote upgrades,
from that point of view substituting GRUB with Lilo is no different than
substit
> disk: hd0+
>
> >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.02
>
>
> boot>
>
> booting hd0a:/bsd: 6563548+1052072 [52+345584+327881]=0x7e7ce8
>
> entry point at 0x200120
>
>
te 20/71/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfac40
> .
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> com0: console
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> ...
> erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
>
> Welcome to the OpenBSD/i386 4.6 installat
I seem to be hitting the Reply i.o. Reply-to-all button quite often
lately. Here it comes again. Apologies.
Hi Doros,
in this case the CF must have been recognized, or the boot prompt would
have never shown up.
Which brand/model CF didn't work? That would be useful info for Soekris
users.
Bill
Hi Aniss,
Yes. See http://www.stsx.org/openbsd/obsd-bootsoekris.html
I wrote it, in what seems previous life lately. Don't know whether it's
entirely up2date, but I expect so - with OpenBSD things don't change a
lot at this level.
Bill
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 22:35 +, aniss siyouti wrote:
> O
Hi Marco,
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:17 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote:
> Marco A. Calamari wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote:
> >> Marco A. Calamari wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote:
> Hey
>
> Why don't you just c
Hi Yakout,
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:00 +1300, Yakout Esmat wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> We build and distribute Asterisk-based PBXes, I guess like many
> others. What we are looking for is to standardize our hardware
> platform, which makes backup/restore, replacement etcmuch easier
> than usi
Hi Malcom,
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 21:22 +1100, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:19:39AM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> |In message <20091031101515.gn3...@mjch.net>, Malcolm Herbert writes:
> |>Can someone point me at the PXE boot process for the Soekris 4801?
> |>
> |>I
Hi Andy,
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:25 -0500, Andy Michaels wrote:
> Off-topic, but why all the hatred for Tcl?
Ignorance breeds contempt;)
Bill
> -a Tcl hacker
>
> *sniff*
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Bill Maas wrote:
> > Hi Graham,
> >
> > ho
Hi Graham,
how about using different machines for different purposes? As an
alternative to "burning a few boards for the sake of the experiment" or
"having pairs of boxes configuring each other". Not really sure what
you're planning to accomplish..
By the way, 'expect' is The Horror as some of th
Hi Harry,
On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 18:35 -0400, Harry Covair wrote:
> I'm having problems booting the box in PXE. I choose to boot F0 and I
> have the cable in VR0's port.
>
> I can see the DHCP client waiting on the net5501. The dhcpd logs a
> dhcpdiscover and dhcpoffer from that MAC. it doesn't
Hi Manh Do,
on OpenBSD (a NetBSD descendant, as you probably know), the message
"device not configured" means as much as "no matching kernel driver
present". Since vr* should be supported, but apparently doesn't work,
this is probably one for the NetBSD list.
Bill
On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 10:57 -07
e image in some emulator.
Bill
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:47 +0200, Bill Maas wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I'm not familiar with pfsense, but I'd have [yet] a[nother] thorough
> look around its TFTP boot, firewall, hosts.allow etc, etc, configuration
> before "blind flash
Hi John,
I'm not familiar with pfsense, but I'd have [yet] a[nother] thorough
look around its TFTP boot, firewall, hosts.allow etc, etc, configuration
before "blind flashing" anything if I were you, especially since
m0n0wall apparently works. Even if you mess up the pfsense
configuration, it is at
Hi Mads,
take a look at http://www.stsx.org/debian/ibs/index.html
It will take care of the haggis of potential PXE/DHCP/TFTP errors for
you, so you can focus on the OS you want to install. Debian lenny
installs perfectly, for Soekris-specific details about Ubuntu see the
Soekris wiki.
Bill
On Mo
Hi John,
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 12:21 -0500, John G. Heim wrote:
> I would like to try installing voyage linux on my 4801. But I don't
> understand the installation instructions.
>
> -- begin quote --
> Download the Voyage Linux software package from
> http://www.voyage.hk/download/voyage/
Hi Casey,
I forgot to mention: you'll have a lot less (potential) trouble if you
use the Lilo boot loader i.o. GRUB. It may even make the critical
difference if you try it with one of the methods you described,
assuming that you have been using GRUB so far.
Bill
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 12:21 -040
Hi Casey,
take a look at this:
http://www.myfaq.com.cn/2005September/2005-09-13/200325.html
Maybe RedHat/Fedora isn't such a great choice for a Soekris after all..
Since you are "not that familiar with computer architecture or Linux"
I'd recommend you to go with the mainstream and use Debian or
Hi Ken,
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 09:09 -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> > > *0: A6 0 1 1 -131 127 63 [ 63: 2112516 ]
> > > OpenBSD
> > > 1: DA131 128 1 -262 254 63 [ 2112579: 2112516 ]
> > >
> > > 2: DA263 0 1 - 6211 254 63 [ 4225
Hi,
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 06:17 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <4a5ff2bc.9010...@foofus.com>, AMuse writes:
>
> >Naturally with that kind of abuse I'm wondering if I should put extra
> >cooling onto the soekris box -- and what's the best way to do so?
>
> One of the first things t
Hi Soren,
with all due respect: is this really how things should be done? Having
followed this list for quite a while now I've come to learn that even
though it may not always seem that way due to extended periods of
deafening silence, the Soekris company do take hardware issues
seriously, and wil
Hi Kenneth,
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:48 -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> joel jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] wrote:
> > I have a couple systems that required updates
> > to 1.33c in order to support the mass-storage
> > devices we choose to use.
>
> I upgraded my bios to 1.33c, and it stil
Hi Kenneth,
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:07 -0400, Hendrickson, Kenneth wrote:
> --- Wim Vandeputte wrote:
> > show the screen capture of your ComBIOS booting
>
> --- I said:
> > I will try to publish the list in about 10-12 hours from now.
>
> Is there a way to get cu to capture all IO to a file??
Hi,
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 14:32 +0200, Erhard Schwenk wrote:
> touchring schrieb:
> > eschwenk wrote:
> >>
> >> eschwenk: 'If you have enough Storage (at least I would recommend 2GB
> >> Flash or a small Hard Disk), you can simply install standard Debian Lenny
> >> on
> >> Soekris.
>
> > Is Deb
Hi Max,
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 22:02 -0800, Max Lou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a net5501 I just finished building a fresh 2.6.29 kernel and
> configured serial output via lilo.conf:
>
> serial=0,19200n8
> append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200"
>
>
> Two problems: One, once the kernel loads t
Hi Matt,
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 03:37 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Bill Maas wrote:
>
> > (b) set up an NFS boot server, boot the box off the NFS root, and again
> >try SSH. In this case reconfiguration will only require a reboot of
> >the Soek
e coming days.
I hope it may be of use to you and others.
Anyway good luck with the boxen,
Bill
> Regards Cesar,
>
> Bill Maas escribió:
> > Hi Cesar,
> >
> > make sure you're using a correct serial null modem cable:
> >
> > http://www.camiresear
Hi,
> > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:58 -0800, TechKid PC wrote:
> >> I finally have the necessary cables and am able to access the comBIOS via
> >> a
> >> USB->Serial->Null-Mode->Female-Gender-Changer adapter chain.
[...]
Some experimenting raises second thoughts on the "messed up comBIOS" issue.
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 03:28 -0800, TechKid PC wrote:
> From: "Bill Maas"
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:22 AM
>
> > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:58 -0800, TechKid PC wrote:
> >> I finally have the necessary cables and am able to access the comBIOS via
> >
omething similar) making it impossible to manage the device? There is no
> removable battery and no reset jumper I can find.
Section 2.5 of the Soekris net4801 manual, preliminary version 0.01;).
Bill
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Bill Maas&
Hi Martin,
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 20:36 +0200, Martin Arendtsen wrote:
> I'm having some fun with a net4801.
>
> After a failed attempt to install freebsd on the net4801 (attached is a
> fujitsu harddrive) I wanted to give it a go once again.
>
> But now when the net4801 boots it simply don't sh
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 03:32 -0500, James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> Bill Maas wrote:
> > geometry issues usually don't result in "No boot device" errors, they
> > just cause the boot loader to fail. After all, sector 0 is sector 0, no
> > matter what geometry is
Hi Rick,
geometry issues usually don't result in "No boot device" errors, they
just cause the boot loader to fail. After all, sector 0 is sector 0, no
matter what geometry is used. AFAIK.
Bill
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 15:18 +0200, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
> After a bios upgrade from (1.27a -> 1.33)
Hi Hansen,
try this:
# apt-get install cu
# chown uucp /dev/ttyS0
# cu -l /dev/ttyS0 -s 19200
You can probably imagine that the values for the local serial port
(/dev/ttyS0) and the transfer rate (19200) are just examples. You will
also probably have to run the chown command after each reboot on
Hi Hansen,
What OS are you running to talk with the Soekris box? Unless it's MSDOS
or a derivative, stepping through the range of supported transfer rates
from the terminal should do. Unless the feature itself is broken, of
course.
Bill
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 13:16 +0700, Hansen Cahyono wrote:
>
Hi TechKid PC,
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 17:57 -0800, TechKid PC wrote:
> From: "Christopher R. Hertel"
> > That's why it's called "comBIOS". The Soekris BIOS sends its output to
> > the
> > serial port.
>
> Ah thanks that explains it. That was the only way I assumed would prove
> useful for trou
Hi,
Setting up serial support over USB has got really simple nowadays, as I
recently discovered myself:
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x356.html
Depending on how your kernel is configured, you might also have to
modprobe one or more modules (module names seem to change over
time/kernel versi
Hi,
Alt: try mounting the partition as root fs from a kernel/initrd image
loaded over TFTP. On my net5501 using a 2.6.27 kernel it's /dev/sdaX,
and not /dev/hdaX, indeed.
Bill
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 09:18 -0700, William Estrada wrote:
> Does the box boot from the Flash? Can you install Grub on th
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:36 +0100, Bill Maas wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 09:00 +0400, philippe monroux wrote:
> > De (from) (von) :
> >
> > > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:43 +0100, 686f6c6d wrote:
> > > > I do not fully understand t
Hi Philippe,
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 09:00 +0400, philippe monroux wrote:
> De (from) (von) :
>
> > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:43 +0100, 686f6c6d wrote:
> > > I do not fully understand the "remote rootfs/nfs" method you used (if
> > > you did, but I assume it from the discussion). Could you, for
> >
Hi,
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:43 +0100, 686f6c6d wrote:
> I do not fully understand the "remote rootfs/nfs" method you used (if
> you did, but I assume it from the discussion). Could you, for
> completeness, document what you did?
>
If you have an NFS root available, you can boot the Soekris box
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 13:41 +0400, philippe monroux wrote:
> De (from) (von) :
>
>
> > Give Voyage linux (Debian based) try, the latest version may just fit on
> > 128MB, if not you will need a slightly older version
> >
> > http://linux.voyage.hk/
> >
> > Wayne
>
> Hmnice
>
>
How
Hi Philippe,
from support.microsoft.com (uhuh):
"If the client cannot connect, you may receive an error message similar
to:
PXE-T01: File not found
PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - File not Found"
Note _connect_: the error message is deceptive, at least in this case
(it might also occur if the file really
Hi Karl,
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:19 -0600, Karl Fife wrote:
> I have a 4801 that seems incredibly fussy about which CF card I use
> with it. No so for any of my 5501-60's or -70's of which we have
> several in service. With the majority of CF cards on the 4801 (both
> name-brand and generic) th
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:11 +0800, David Schulz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:25:19PM -0500, Jed Clear wrote:
> > On Tue Dec 16 22:49 , David Schulz sent:
> > >I recently purchased 2 net4801 that now run OpenBSD 4.4 Release.
> > >I attached a USB Keyboard to the USB Port.
> > >
> > >In my d
Hi,
This might be of interest to the Debianist amongst us: I've been working
on a shell script for setting up an on-demand boot server for the last
couple of weeks. For fun an non-profit and stuff.. And because I needed
one;). The result is here:
http://www.stsx.org/debian/ibs/
The NFS root part
Hi Robin,
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 18:04 +0100, Robin Kipp wrote:
> Hi list,
> Since installing Debian on my Net5501 via PXE boot won't work for me, I
> thought about installing it directly on a CF card from a laptop using a
> USB card reader. Could anyone please tell me what I need to adjust after
>
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:57 +0100, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> > Hi Ebbe,
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 20:45 +0100, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> >> >
> >> > - Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
> >> > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:50:35 +0100 (CET)
> >> > From: Ebbe Hjorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
Hi Ebbe,
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 20:45 +0100, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> >
> > - Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
> > Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:50:35 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Ebbe Hjorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom
Hi Ebbe,
if you happen to be a Debian user, I happen to have just finished
setting up an Instant Boot Server system for that OS. It is based on a
debootstrapped chroot environment. It sets up all the difficult
DHCP/TFTP/PXE stuff automatically based on a quite simple config file,
and one of the su
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 18:15 +, Andrew Thomas wrote:
> PXE boot isn't really for the faint hearted. For a start you will need
> a Linux PC with a DHCP server and a proper PXE configuration/image.
>
> You can copy files straight to the SD card - but watch out for file
> types (especially if yo
ey should know, where the problem if POST stops at
> this position.
>
> --
> Alexander Pogrebny
> engineer
> Unidata, Ukraine
>
>
> 2008/11/26 Bill Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi Alexander,
> >
> > does the boot sequence completely stop a
Hi Alexander,
does the boot sequence completely stop after this message or does it go
into an endless reboot sequence?. In the latter case you may need a more
powerful PSU.
I had a similar problem recently with a net5501 and I found that while
its nominal power usage with a [more or less] idle OS
Hi Robin,
there's another complication with the kernel+initrd+rdev approach:
IDE != FDD.. So I doubt whether the comBIOS will load the kernel without
a partition table in sector 0. In fact, I've seen [IBM] harddrives
ceasing to be recognized as such after zeroing out the boot sector.
Still, how h
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:35 +0100, Bill Maas wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> for the really desperate there is yet another escape, which I've tried
> with floppies with success, but never with a CF card:
>
> - dd a kernel onto the boot device starting at sector 0
> - dd an i
Hi Robin,
for the really desperate there is yet another escape, which I've tried
with floppies with success, but never with a CF card:
- dd a kernel onto the boot device starting at sector 0
- dd an initrd image right after it using the seek or skip option (this
involes keeping track of the ker
Hi Robin,
assuming that you have a laptop or PC with a CF adapter, and since
installing the files shouldn't be much of an issue:
cp -a /mnt/tmpinstall/* /mnt/MY_CF_CARD
or:
debootstrap lenny /mnt/MY_CF_CARD http://ftp..debian.org/debian
.. what's left is making the thing bootable. This has bee
[Follow-up to my previous message]
Maybe best start with lowering the Debconf priority in the kernel
commandline and see if you get some error message, for example (with
PXELinux):
LABEL blah
kernel blah
append priority=low
By the way, and slightly on-topic: I found that the order
Hi Esteban,
I'd start with dropping the separate /boot and see if it works, or
making /boot, say, 20MB to begin with. RedHat's installer used to have
unsane requirements for /boot, it wanted at least 50MB while only 35MB
was going to be used (exact numbers may be slightly off, they're just
for the
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 11:01 -0500, jmc wrote:
> --- David Alexander [Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:04:53PM -0700]: ---
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:03:52 -0500, jmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >at any rate, i copied the pxeboot and bsd.rd images into my tftp root.
> > >in the Soekris boot monitor,
Hi Hal,
I tried messing with the serial port used for the system console at
runtime and I lived to regret it;). You should be able use com1 for
input, see here http://wiki.soekris.info/5501_Interfaces for details.
Bill
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 01:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm using a Net5501.
Hi Robin,
maybe you should consider sticking with a well-documented mainstream OS
distro for the time being, i.o. trying out some specialized piece of
kit. Because A: where are you going to find a CF card with only 64 or
128 MB anyway? and B: I'm not sure why each and every single application
need
Hi Robin,
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 13:23 +0200, Robin Kipp wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> Thanks for your info. The problem is I don't have Linux running, just
> Windows :-(
Dual-boot, Live CD, ... ?
At least you will have access to excellent documentation. Look for the
Debian Installation Guide, section 4.6
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 22:15 -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> Nice.
>
> Yea -- I wasn't sure if there was an industry standard for DC power
> connector form factors.
Given the nature of the industry, probably many;)
Bill
> JameCo.com is probably the definative source (the website doesn't do i
least.
Bill
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 07:05 -0700, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Bill Maas writes:
> > It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF
> > is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely
> > isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a v
Hi Oleg,
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 10:10 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> Bill Maas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> >
> > > Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would like
> > > to find out the common
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:15 -0700, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
> Hey there, I'm thinking of getting the new net5501 board and would
> like to find out the common way people use CF cards. I assume the
> board can boot from a CF card, and my question is whether can I create
> an ext3fs partition on the CF,
Hi all,
is this the "both the error and disk LEDs stay lit up" issue? I had it
myself again just an hour ago. It happens every now and then with no
obvious reason after a power failure, with CF mounted internally and no
additional HDDs or other exotics attached. Most of the time everything
works f
Hi Pierrick,
lilo probably wants an additional "serial=" parameter in lilo.conf. See
e.g.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-boot-loader-lilo.html
I would expect this to affect the boot loader output, not the kernel
output, but it might be passed by the BL to the kernel
Hi Robin,
since either no-one else answers your question or the list is down
again, here a a few options:
1. Partition the CF locally (e.g. on a laptop) with custom CHS values:
fdisk -C cyls -H heads -S sects .
2. Mount the CF in the Soekris box, boot from TFTP and install from
the Soe
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 09:44 +0100, Adam Retter wrote:
> If you hacker side is emerging then does it really have to be pfSense
> or m0n0wall? Why not go the whole hog and do your own setup.
Word.
Bill;)
> I have a net 4801 that I have had running for a few years now with
> OpenBSD on it and PF.
On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:03 +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Robin Kipp writes:
[...]
> In your case I'd try booting from a live linux CD and playing around.
> Shouldn't be too hard.
Just make sure you install tftpd-hpa and not some native TFTP server, or
you might spend a lot of time debuggin
Hi,
256 MB generally appears to be the smallest size available for retail,
see for example:
http://www.flash-memory-store.com/256mb-compact-flash.html
But here they even sell 32 MB:
http://www.memorysuppliers.com/sandisk1.html?gclid=CN-CwMvmxpUCFRKS1QodhDG0iw
[I just can't help wondering where
Hi Thomas,
if you need to make lots of frequent little changes for testing, using
an NFS root might be more practical. With Linux it's fairly easy
(PXELinux + kernel boot options), with OpenBSD it's a bit trickier (see
"Embedded OpenBSD" at www.kernel-panic.it). With other OSes I don't
know, but t
Hi Chris,
maybe start here:
http://wiki.soekris.info/I'm_seeing_some_strange_hardware_malfunction._What_should_I_try
Bill
On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:20 +0800, Chris Ong wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Hi my friend,
>
> I have a weird problem with the combination m
Hello,
by the way, is there some special reason why I receive postings from
this list in a random order and with variable and sometimes considerable
delays (days)?
Bill
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Hi Silviu,
you need to install pxelinux (if you haven't already), then point to
pxelinux.O from dhcpd.conf:
host {
filename "pxelinux.O";
}
You're probably trying to load vmlinuz i.o. the boot loader.
For completeness, below is a basic dhcpd.conf example for fixed
adre
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:47 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Maas writes:
>
> >I'm very much in favour of lifting the word Scraper into the official IT
> >jargon, [...]
>
> You'd be years late for that :-)
Believe i
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 20:41 -0700, Daniel E. Hassler wrote:
> The word harvester might be more appropriate. Sadly there are folks out
> there harvesting email addresses and sending SPAM :(
IMHO the word "scraper" does not only sound cooler, but it also has the
appropriate negative ring to it in
Hi Peter,
GRUB seeing a corrupted FS in stage 2 sounds more like disk geometry
trouble (see the Soekris Wiki pages). The xmodem upload issue is almost
certainly unrelated, since nothing is written to disk. You might want to
give cu/lrzsz a try for that one.
Bill
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:03 +0200
Hi Lars,
take a look at the comBIOS changelog on the "downloads" page at
soekris.com:
http://www.soekris.com/software/changelog.txt
It should contain basic but usable info about new comBIOS features
integrated after the manuals were published.
Bill
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 10:32 +0300, Lars Nood
come up with myself (I don't use FreeBSD),
but it was definitely in the archives;)
Bill
> Thanks for the help
>
> ///Thomas
>
> Bill Maas wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, Thomas Elsgaard wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, Thomas Elsgaard wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.2 via PXE boot on a 4801, and the PXE
> boot goes well, but when i am starting to install the OS, i am getting
> following error from the installer:
>
> Unable to find device nod
Hello tokind,
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:23 -0700, tokind wrote:
> I tried this and got no further. I decided to focus on the 0.0.0.0 business
> and added a
>
> option next-server 10.222.0.1;
>
> to my dhcpd conf. This did the trick. Apparently some ROM boot clients
> resort to 0.0.0.0 and conn
Hi tokind,
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:43 -0700, tokind wrote:
> I built a FreeBSD 6.2 server according to the instructions in Michael R.
> Brumm's article @
> http://www.michaelbrumm.com/how-to-install-freebsd-pxe.html
>
> I am connecting the net4501 directly to the nic on the server, so there is
Hi Mario,
you might consider the modular approach: Soekris net for
routing/firewall and VPN, and one or two bigger boxes for the rest.
Maintaining two or more boxes in different roles tends to be a lot less
stressful than having to maintain a single one in a multi-role config.
You'll have to
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 07:48 +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Massimiliano Cianelli writes
> :
>
> >I'v recently bought a Net5530, I'm trying to find how to command the
> > 3 led on the front of panel.
>
> I pressume you mean a 5501 in a case :-)
>
> >
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:04 +, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008-07-23, Bill Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > RTS/CTS is enabled by default, at least on a net5501 (I had trouble with
> > an oddly wired cable a while ago).
>
> afaik, that would only affect the bo
Hi Grice,
RTS/CTS is enabled by default, at least on a net5501 (I had trouble with
an oddly wired cable a while ago). The problem is that this is not
documented anywhere, except maybe fragmentarily on the Soekris Wiki.
Bill
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 20:04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OpenBSD 4
sting about "Lilo unable to boot" on this list. GRUB on the other hand
is a regular visitor..;)
Bill
> Chris
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Bill Maas wrote:
>
> > Hi Eternity,
> >
> > In addition to everything proposed so far: take a look at "disk geometr
Hi Eternity,
In addition to everything proposed so far: take a look at "disk geometry
issues" on the Soekris Wiki. Those may also cause problems with GRUB.
If that is the problem, just boot with Lilo or Syslinux (which is the
smallest boot loader for Linux I think, an at least the easiest to
conf
Hi Crist,
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:41 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> > Crist J. Clark writes:
> > > My only real worry is that I've not broken out all of the stuff from
> > > the /var that I should and I may get "dead spots" on m
Hi,
I'm not very familiar with memory issues let alone OpenBSD's MFS memory
allocation/release algorithms, but the following strikes me as being a
bit odd:
net5501:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 98348628666264765031%/
mfs:26509
Hi Kevin,
I've been running DaneElec cards without a single problem as well on a
soekris net5501-70. Cheap, moderately fast and reliable it seems.
Still, I feel less "trust" in my net5501 than in my net4801, and I've
made the 5501 my backup web server i.o. the default one after one hang
too many.
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:51 -0400, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
> > You may find that you prefer one of the BSDs.
>
> I was just sitting here playing with OpenBSD and it's been a hair
> raising experience so far :/
>
Maybe this will reassure you: tho OpenBSD approach towards new (Linux)
users seems
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 00:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 07:46:24PM -0400, Stephen Brown wrote:
> > Well I'm looking to get away from my old PC and jump into an embedded
> > platform because I think it will be challenging, fun and educational while
> > fullfilling a
Hi Georgios,
I'm reluctant to post this link yet again, but what the ...:
http://stsx.xs4all.nl/www.stsx.org/openbsd/obsd-bootsoekris.html
I wrote it a while ago. It's a sort of A-Z of installing OpenBSD on a
Soekris box in the form of a checklist, with a strong emphasis on "the
stupid and obvio
Hi Lars,
for a 1-time clone to an identical CF dd will probably do, just check
that it is indeed bootable after the dd, or run installboot(8)
afterwards.
For periodical "cloning" (i.e. mirroring) I'd use rsync, which is very
conservative when it comes to writes (no, let's not start that CF
w-cycl
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:03 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for your superb feedback!
Always nice to have an in-depth discussion about almost nothing.
Must keep it short this time, because I must check my Bio Sentry.
Bill
--
"What's a computer?" - MES
___
Hi Igor,
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 20:51 +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote:
[...]
> 3. "Mhz" should be really "MHz", this typo hurts someone with a
>background in fundamental physics. ;-)
>
> 4. May I suggest renaming "CpuSpeed" to "CPUspeed"? (just as in
>"BIOSentry"); CPU is an acronym.
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