On Friday 10 October 2008, you wrote: > Which specific version of comBIOS 1.33x do you have on your 5501?
According to the comBIOS, just plain 1.33. It came up without a version number. I saw there's a 1.33c after that, but the changelog didn't have the differences, so I didn't want to bother with an upgrade unless I knew what I was adding. > On 10/10/08, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Is there a way to boot off the hard drive consistently, without > > dealing with the bug I've read about? (Then I wouldn't need the > > CF.) > > Yes, you can set the boot order in the BIOS to force boot order, > or use CTRL-P and "boot f0" to manually PXEboot. Okay, that made a BIG difference! I got it to do a PXEBoot with the CF installed and there was no problem with the Debian installer recognizing everything after that. I don't know the reasoning, but it seems (from what I saw) that comBIOS needs the CF to be inserted on boot -- if I plug it in later, it causes problems. I've got a Debian system up and running now. The root fs is in the CF and /tmp and /var are on my hard drive, along with a swap partition and a large data partition for file serving work. Looking back, if I'm going to use this as a printer server, should I have made /var fairly large? > > I would have searched the archives for answers, but I could not > > find a web page that let me do that. I've spent a lot of time > > combing through comments found through Google that almost but not > > really helped me out. > > I mostly use http://wiki.soekris.info/ for research, searchable > archives are at: http://archive.netbsd.se/search.php?ml=soekris-tech I found some good stuff on the wiki, but it's not really complete. I did add a change to the page I used on how to install Debian Etch. I included that you've also got to specify to the Linux kernel to use the serial port and to set the baud rate. If I had known that, it would have saved me 3-5 hours last night. Thanks for the help and info! Hal _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
