HI everyone, Thanks to Darrick, Gary, Lonnie and Tim for offering valuable suggestions on the ebox-3850ps. For those of you who have forgotten, here's the link to the hardware: http://www.wdlsystems.com/ebox/ebox.shtml
Gary - your idea of automatic provisioning is a good one, but it's probably overkill for an undergraduate-level course project. But, I will keep that idea in mind for a graduate-level project. Lonnie - m0n0wall support is secondary, at this time ..so we decided to go ahead with the ebox evaluations, and not worry about m0n0wall support on the ebox. Tim - your warning about Via systems not being able to boot from non-ide devices was taken into consideration. So, we verified their ability to boot off USB drives, but we are still running into roadblocks. Read on... Carlos- not sure if the ebox works with TDM400P or TE110P in the pci-x slot. I don't have the device with me and don't remember if it has the slot or not, but the box is *really small* ...just slightly larger than an internal 3.5" harddrive box. If it indeed has a PCI slot, the card will have to be really small to fit. We did indeed obtain an evaluation kit this week. First impressions: Overall, the build quality is really solid. The box is very compact, and the case has aluminium at the top and bottom, which acts as a heat sink. The processor has a (passive) heat sink and the CPU heat sink is in contact with the aluminium from the computer case by means of a large thermal pad. The case gets very warm ...almost hot to the touch ...certainly more than the net4801. There is room inside for a 2.5" drive, but we installed a 1 GB "Embed disk" ....it's a CF card, with an IDE interface, all on one board -- it fits neatly inside the box. I hooked it up to an LCD monitor, connected the kbd and LAN, and tried booting off a USB CDROM drive. I used the AstLinux ISO (ver 0.4.4). And here's where the problems began. It starts to boot just fine, then right after "Freeing Unused Kernel memory", I get this message: "Unable to identify CD-ROM format CD-ROM not found /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off <etc, etc and CD-ROM info is shown here>" Then it drops me down to the busybox shell. I have no clue how to proceed. After commencing to boot off the CDROM drive, why can't it read it any more? So, I tried booting off a USB key ... tried both the via as well as the i586 images (ver 0.4.4). Well, it gets stuck at grub. I mean, it just displays "GRUB" and but menu. And that's where it sits. I have no idea as to where to even start looking for debugging clues. Note that, as a test, I booted a DELL laptop using the same CD as well as well as the USB flash disk. The laptop booted up fine. Are there any known issues in booting off a USB key/CDROm drive? Anyway, to summarize, I haven't been able to install AstLinux on the internal IDE-CFcard. In fact, how the heck do I even boot up this system and install AstLinux (without resorting to PXE boot)? Anyone have any suggestions as to where to start looking? Thanks, -- Sarvesh _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.kriscompanies.com http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP!
