David, You are right about baud rate and screen garbage of course. Even though I know about the baud rate issue and the idea that the garbage might mean the wrong baud rate entered my head, I'm embarressed to say that I didn't investigate quite enough.
However, no love. With the baud rate fixed, I get the message early in boot: "This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 3dnow", so even though my diagnosis was based on flawed evidence, the earlier conclusion apparently is correct: the Geode Leaf variant doesn't work on Soekris net4801. Tim On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:27 PM, David M Brooke <l...@davidmbrooke.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Just a hunch, but “garbage” after the BIOS prompt is a classic symptom of > a baud rate mis-match on the serial console. > > Might be worth checking what your terminal it set to use versus what is set > for the kernel boot line in syslinux.cfg (115200 IIRC these days whereas > it used to be 19200 in older versions). > If you change it for the kernel bear in mind it’s also set (separately) > for the > login prompt in /etc/inittab > > dMb > > > > On 21 Nov 2015, at 17:37, Timothy Wegner <t...@tswegner.net> wrote: > > > > Erich, > > > > You are correct that the Soekris net4801 has a Geode CPU (boot screen > > says CPU Geode SC1100 267 Mhz). However, in the past I never got the Leaf > > Geode version to work, and when I tried it just now, I just got garbage > on > > the screen after the bios message. > > > > I searched the mailing lists and found a message from Tom Erjavec dated > > 2015-03-26 13:41:06 stating that on his Wrap board with the same Geode > > SC1100 CPU, the Geode distribution doesn't work but the 486 version does. > > He speculated that "geode" code is for newer ALIX or APU. > > > > I will wait for KP's 486 version, and will happily test it at the first > > opportunity. Meanwhile, the 486 variant of LEAF Bering-uClibc 5.2 works > > perfectly on the Soekris net4801. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tim > > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Erich Titl <erich.t...@think.ch> wrote: > > > >> Hi Timothy > >> > >> Am 19.11.2015 um 16:17 schrieb Timothy Wegner: > >>> Hi Erich, > >>> > >>> I solved the problem you quoted - it was due to an old modules tgz file > >>> I had not cleaned off the compact flash. Andrew's note helped solve it. > >>> > >>> However I have another very different problem on a Soekris net4801 that > >>> uses the 486/serial package. The boot process can't even get started, > >>> and aborts with the message: > >>> > >>> "This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: > pae" > >>> > >>> Bering-uClibc_5.2_i486_syslinux_serial19200.tar.gz works fine > >>> but Bering-uClibc_5.2.1_i486_syslinux_serial19200.tar.gz has the above > >>> problem. > >> > >> You could try the geode version, PAE is not set there and IIRC the > >> Soekris hardware is an old geode. > >> > >> cheers > >> > >> Erich > >> > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
