[gentoo-embedded] Installing gentoo on Soekris Net4801 - not booting

[gentoo-embedded] Installing gentoo on Soekris Net4801 - not booting

[Jean-Marc Beaune]

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Hi,

I'm trying to reinstall Gentoo on my Soekris Net4801 but after a fresh
install it won't boot.

Via the serial port I can see grub booting:
"GRUB Loading stage1.5.


GRUB loading, please wait..."

Then nothing else but a blinking cursor.

Any idea how I can debug that?

Thank you
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Jean-Marc

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] Installing gentoo on Soekris Net4801 - not booting

[Peter Stuge]

Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
> Via the serial port I can see grub booting:
> "GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> 
> 
> GRUB loading, please wait..."
> 
> Then nothing else but a blinking cursor.
> 
> Any idea how I can debug that?

Check that your kernel is speaking on the serial port.

I for one have had annoying trouble with GRUB on two instances, and
then I went back to using LILO as I have always, and it continues to
always just work, also with 3TB GPT drives in an old server..


//Peter

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Installing gentoo on Soekris Net4801 - not booting

[Jean-Marc Beaune]

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I added options in grub.conf to make kernel speak on ttyS0 but that didn't
help.

I tried with Lilo, it's not much better but but at least it says "No such
image".

Any idea what that means?

Thank you,
JM

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:

> Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
> > Via the serial port I can see grub booting:
> > "GRUB Loading stage1.5.
> >
> >
> > GRUB loading, please wait..."
> >
> > Then nothing else but a blinking cursor.
> >
> > Any idea how I can debug that?
>
> Check that your kernel is speaking on the serial port.
>
> I for one have had annoying trouble with GRUB on two instances, and
> then I went back to using LILO as I have always, and it continues to
> always just work, also with 3TB GPT drives in an old server..
>
>
> //Peter
>
>


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Jean-Marc

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