On 03/08/2014 19:19, Philip Heron wrote:
I've dug out an old net4801 I've had in storage for a while and decided
to try Debian 7 on it. The installer seemed to run perfectly but
afterwards it is refusing to boot. It goes through the usual BIOS
sequence and then all I get is:
GRUB loading.
Welcom
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Philip Heron wrote:
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> I just tried lilo, and it loads the kernel fine it seems to fail on the
> initrd:
>
> Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
>
> It then panics and dies. Googling threw up a few suggestions, adding the
> 'large-memory' option
On 03/08/14 21:07, Andy Michaels wrote:
I believe I used LILO as the boot loader to avoid this issue. That
was a long time ago, though, so YMMV.
I just tried lilo, and it loads the kernel fine it seems to fail on the
initrd:
Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
It then pa
For some reason GRUB does not like my CF card. Very odd.
I bet that GRUB is not a problem this time. Grub is an multistage
bootloader and when bios reports some really odd geometry, grub may just
give up (fails to load second stage).
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Soek
On 03/08/14 19:19, Philip Heron wrote:
Then it reboots. It's been stuck in this cycle for a while. Reinstalling
hasn't helped. Anyone seen this before and know a quick fix?
I just tried it on a 120GB IDE HDD and it worked perfectly. For some
reason GRUB does not like my CF card. Very odd.
-P
> On Aug 3, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Philip Heron wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've dug out an old net4801 I've had in storage for a while and decided to
> try Debian 7 on it. The installer seemed to run perfectly but afterwards it
> is refusing to boot. It goes through the usual BIOS sequence and then all I
Hi All,
I've dug out an old net4801 I've had in storage for a while and decided
to try Debian 7 on it. The installer seemed to run perfectly but
afterwards it is refusing to boot. It goes through the usual BIOS
sequence and then all I get is:
GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!
Then it reboots.
