John,

I'm not too surprised 0.7 didn't boot in your case.

Please try AstLinux 1.0.4, if you wish use build.astlinux.org and build a 
custom image with a "FAT16 Partition: 128 MB" which may be desirable for your 
case if you have limited Flash.

Lonnie


On Sep 4, 2012, at 6:05 PM, John Novack wrote:

> Thanks I will gather more information and return
> This was 0.7, Runnix loaded and worked, but somewhere in the multi stage 
> process of loading AstLinux it either failed or just stopped.
> 
> Later
> 
> JN
> 
> Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> I assume this is AstLinux 1.0.4 or at least 1.0.x ...
>> 
>> No use trying any other images, if geni586 fails to boot, any other board 
>> type will fail to boot, as we now use a unified kernel.  It probably is 
>> failing in the RUNNIX bootloader.
>> 
>> I recall working with Brian Barr last December with his HP T5710, and got it 
>> working with setting CONFIG_PATA_ALI=y in the AstLinux and RUNNIX kernels.
>> 
>> Some context where the boot failed would be very helpful, bit my guess is 
>> the IDE controller.  If you can boot your box with some sort of Linux, do a 
>> "lspci -vvv" and forward any info about the IDE interface.
>> 
>> Lonnie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:48 PM, John Novack wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I have a couple of HP Thin Clients (5540) that use the VIA Eden CPU ( 1Gig 
>>> ) and the geni586 image fails to complete the boot process, so I want to 
>>> try a VIA image. 
>>> Does anyone know if either the C3 or C7 VIA image  resembles the Eden?
>>> 
>>> I have done some Google searches, but have come up empty
>>> 
>>> John Novack
>>> 
>>> 
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