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Hi Cesar,
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 14:44 -0500, Cesar Bonilla wrote:
> Thanks a lot Bill,
>
> The cable worked right
If that implies "but I still can't see any output", it looks like the
UART is broken. The good news is that the LED activity on the box
_suggests_ that otherwise the board still _may_ be in good health.
You can do 2 things:
(a) configure a CF card on a PC, perform a "blind boot" and hope and
pray that you may be able to ssh into the system. The main drawback
is that for each configuration error you will have to re-flash the
CF. And unless you know the CHS values, you will need to use a boot
loader that ignores the fs, e.g. lilo.
(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 Soekris box. The drawback is that you may get to see numerous
nondescript error messages from NFS before you get it all right,
each of which may take a day or more to fix (really!).
I recently finished a piece of software (shell code) recently which sets
up a Debian boot server with NFS support inside a chrooted environment:
http://www.stsx.org/debian/ibs/index.html
It's finished for now, publishable, and _almost_ marketable: the only
thing left to do is finish the high-level Operation Manual, which is
intended to demonstrate how easy it is to set up and operate the kit.
But the manpages should be quite readable as well, and if time is an
issue, in most cases you can skip/skim the blah and look at the
examples, which mostly speak for themselves. I'll see if I can get
myself to giving the OM a push in the right direction the 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.camiresearch.com/Data_Com_Basics/RS232_standard.html
> >
> > If both boxes are properly connected, you should at least get garbage
> > from the comBIOS output, even if the serial parameters are wrong. Check
> > for compliance with the "DB9 Null Modem Cable" pin config, even if the
> > cable was sold as such (there are crappy cables sold out there).
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 09:58 -0500, Cesar Bonilla wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Everybody,
> > >
> > > I have a Net5501 with a USB Memory. I connect to Console port but I
> > > can't see anything!
> > >
> > > Power led and Error led turn on. Then Disk led turns on for a while,
> > > after then Error led and Disk leds turn off.
> > >
> > > My settings of Serial port are:
> > >
> > > Baud speed: 19200
> > > Data bits: 8
> > > Stop bits: 1
> > > Parity: none
> > > Flow control: none
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> > > Cordial Saludo,
> > >
> > > Ing. César Augusto Bonilla A.
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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