I had an idea .... Ubuntu as Desktop which is the best I have seen and the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long term service - until 2011) server .... so one distribution for all purposes / great.
My experience: 6:06 partitioner doesn't work on Soekris .... Debian did. Debian as a NTP server held the offset time within 6000 - 10000 msec / uhh So back to square one and I re-installed the best and most stable environment - FreeBSD on all my Soekris boxes - all done & it works!! Kept Ubuntu as a desktop though best regards ervin On 19/11/2007, ervin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right .... correct partitioning solved the issue thx > :-) ervin > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 456M 118M 315M 28% / > varrun 252M 40K 252M 1% /var/run > varlock 252M 4,0K 252M 1% /var/lock > udev 252M 52K 252M 1% /dev > devshm 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > lrm 252M 19M 234M 8% > /lib/modules/2.6.15-29-386/volatile > /dev/hda3 1,8G 33M 1,7G 2% /tmp > /dev/hda6 17G 303M 16G 2% /usr > /dev/hda5 17G 280M 16G 2% /var > > > > On 19/11/2007, Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:35:48PM +0100, ervin wrote: > > > The PXE boot went fine and I installed the GRUB loader on the 40GB HD > > > as you can see above. > > > Changes were made according to this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekrins > > > > > > However booting afterwards gives me the GRUB error 18 ..... it's a > > > minimal install on a full ext3 formatted HDrive. > > > > > > --------------------------- The GRUB manual says: > > > ------------------------------------------- > > > "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. > > > > > > This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block > > > address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally > > > happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for > > > (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general)." > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > How did you partition your 40GB drive? > > > > As the error says, you need to ensure that your kernel is within a partition > > at the "start" of the disk, i.e. below cylinder 1024. Depending on the > > geometry settings this might be the first 8GB, or it might be less. > > > > Use 'fdisk /dev/hda' followed by 'p' to see the geometry and the partition > > table (assuming the drive is available as /dev/hda when you do this) > > > > The normal solution to this problem is to repartition your hard drive so > > that /boot is the first small partition (/dev/hda1, say 100MB) and then the > > rest is whatever you want - perhaps /dev/hda2 for swap and /dev/hda3 for > > the root partition (/) > > > > HTH, > > > > Brian. > > > > > -- > > > mvh/best regards ervin > -- mvh/best regards ervin _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
