On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 09:00:02PM -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: > I've got a new net5501. For now, I'm just trying to do a diskless > boot with FreeBSD. The first few stages of the netboot appear to > be working fine. It gets a DCHP lease. It fetches the pxeboot > via TFTP, but having some problems after this. > > It looks like the boot is continuing, but it is not completing, > and I'm not sure what's going on because the console is not > readable. All of the output is on the same line and it looks > like it keeps getting overwritten with blanks. I see a brief > flash of a few charcaters, then gone. What I mostly see is the > spinner, "/-\|/", spinning away on the line. > > This sounds like the cons25 problem I see mentioned in many > sources about running FreeBSD on Soekris, but I did comment out, > > # Include simple terminal emulation (cons25-compatible) > #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU > > In /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile. And then did a, > > # cd /usr/src/sys/boot > # make obj && make depend && make && make install > > (In a jail with with the root that the net5501 is trying to > mount as root.) But I still seem to have the problem. Am I > missing some other step? Is this not the terminal emulation > problem? > > And once I get this fixed, I think at some point later in the > boot the console appears to flip to a different speed. I get > garbage characters. Perhaps when the kernel takes over from > the loader, it's falling back to 9600? > -- > Crist J. Clark | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am pretty certain that is what happens here. I have found that it is simpler to go into the combios of the soekris and just set it to 9600, since that's what FreeBSD switches to at a certain point in the boot sequence. As to your first issue, I will have to leave that to someone else. I used the minibsd guide at: http://www.ultradesic.com/index.php?section=125 as my starting point for getting FreeBSD 6 up and running. I have it running on several net4801s and net5501s, though they are all using Compact Flash cards, not netbooting. Mark. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
