Hi Arun and list
Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:48:10 +0530 > Subject: [Soekris] Net 5501 -- Voyage Linux CF not recognized by BIOS > > I have installed Voyage Linux on 0.8.5 [a] on two CF cards (256MB, and > 4GB). There is only one partition /dev/sda1, Grub is the boot loader. > > [a] Derivative of Debian Testing. > > The install process goes fine i.e. no error message on the screen. > > On my laptop, fdisk -l shows the the partitions on the CF. > > When I put the CF cards in the net5501, it fails to recognize the cards. > > The BIOS times out and goes to PXE boot; it fails as there is no > ethernet connection to the device and then this is the last part of > the display on the serial console. > > <screenshot> > > PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM. > > No Boot device available, enter monitor. > > > comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help. > > > > > </screenshot> > > I have installed other distros on these CF cards and they work fine on > the ALIX platform, > so I am pretty sure the CF cards are not the problem. > > Any pointers as what could be the problem highly appreciated. I installed Voyage Linux 0.8.5 in a 4GB CF card this week, inserted it into a Soekris net5501, and it worked perfectly... The CF-card is a Kingston Ultimate 133X 4GB (not entirely new) ComBIOS recognizes it as the primary slave: : Pri Sla ULTIMATE CF CARD 4GB LBA Xlt 1007-128-63 4062 Mbyte So VL 0.8.5 does actually work in a net5501. I have no clue why it does not work in your case... :-( > Has anyone been able to boot Debian Squeeze (2.6.32) distro on Soekris 5501? I have not tried that. Cheers, Anders -- Anders Bandholm Twitter: http://twitter.com/abandholm See http://www.d7.dk for more contact info PGP: id=0x0DD38396; fp=9FDE 3B13 6CA3 BD03 7BF1 7062 E694 D295 0DD3 8396 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
