I was installing my net5501-70 with the new debian wheezy via PXE, the same method i'm used to for the earlier distributions.
I got the pxe boot ok, and installed ok with the usual quirks due to correctly setup the serial console; no problem here. The problem i have is that when booting the grub2 this debian installation has (grub1 is deprecated and not available; lilo while present is confusing himself and cannot boot due to some drive CHS remap.) what is interesting is that the thing is *not* os-related, the linux kernel isn't even loaded. The grub2 boot loader hangs before even presenting the menu it should. i researched and found there was a bug in the grub2 (resolved more than 1yr ago) avout pci bridges, so i removed the 4-port ethernet in order to have just one pci bus just to test but it doesn't resolve the problem. the debian installer files are those of 3 days ago, packages are got directly from mirrors via network so they are at the last releases. The very stange fact is that when i have removed the grub.cfg file and rebooted (then grub should have dropped me at a prompt) this is not happening, suggesting some bios or hardware initialization issue. I then updated the board from bios 1.32 to 1.33c (the last available on soekris site just in case, after i read some other stories in internet about a dell machine having the same problem and resolving by a bios upgrade. Someone has ideas on how to resolve this or just how to perform a meaningful debug session? I just hate when someting hangs without saying anything. grrr. :) Thank you all. Andrea ---------------- Boot example: POST: 012345689bcefghips1234ajklnopqr,,,tvwxy comBIOS ver. 1.33c 20080626 Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Soekris Engineering net5501 0512 Mbyte Memory CPU Geode LX 500 Mhz Pri Mas TOSHIBA MK8032GAX LBA Xlt 1024-255-63 78 Gbyte Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int ------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:01:2 1022 2082 10100000 0006 0220 08 00 00 A0000000 00000000 10 0:06:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E101 A0004000 11 0:07:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E201 A0004100 05 0:08:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E301 A0004200 09 0:09:0 1106 3053 02000096 0117 0210 08 40 00 0000E401 A0004300 12 0:20:0 1022 2090 06010003 0009 02A0 08 40 80 00006001 00006101 0:20:2 1022 209A 01018001 0005 02A0 08 00 00 00000000 00000000 0:21:0 1022 2094 0C031002 0006 0230 08 00 80 A0005000 00000000 15 0:21:1 1022 2095 0C032002 0006 0230 08 00 00 A0006000 00000000 15 1 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor. GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB! (and then nothing. because i removed a config file i should have got a "grub rescue >" prompt) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
