Hi Heming, Yes, the image SwanWifi.img is a bit old and I'd like to post a new one (and need to change the instruction). I'll do it sometime today.
- Masa On Mar 6, 2012, at 7:51 AM, Heming Wen wrote: > Hi KK, > > Thanks for the advice. I will try to find a ScanDisk CF (or a different brand > CF) and see if that changes anything. > > I noticed in the wiki for PC Engine AP that it was recently changed by Masa > and is currently incomplete. Does that mean you have a new image for the AP? > > The new instructions mention the file "OpenFlowAP.img.gz" which is named > differently from the SwanWifi.img. The link to that file is not working yet > but is there any difference in the new version beside the naming? > > Thank you for your support, > > Heming > ________________________________________ > From: yap...@gmail.com [yap...@gmail.com] on behalf of kk yap > [yap...@stanford.edu] > Sent: March 3, 2012 20:01 > To: Heming Wen > Cc: openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu > Subject: Re: [openflow-discuss] PC Engine AP booting errors for OpenRoads > > Hi Heming, > > Sorry for the late response. > > The difference in size of the CF card should not make a difference, > esp. if you are using a larger card. Expanding the filesystem to make > use of the 4GB space should be fairly simple too---a few commands with > fdisk which Google would remember better than I do. > > As for the error, can I recommend that you try to use a SanDisk CF > card? There is something about CF card and Grub's boot sector that > SanDisk seems to have got right. > > http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2008-October/015084.html > > However, I cannot confirm that this is the problem, so just get one and try. > > Regards > KK > > On 27 February 2012 13:35, Heming Wen <heming....@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I am trying to run the image provided on the page: >> http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_AP_with_PC_Engine >> Our lab has bought the same hardware as suggested by the tutorial. However, >> we are using 4GB Kingston compact flash drives instead of the 2GB one. After >> flashing the SwanWifi.img image on the CF card and trying to boot from it, I >> get the infamous GRUB Error 17 during bootloading. >> >> I suspected whether the fact that I'm using 4GB CF card instead of 2GB makes >> a big difference. I also suspected whether the filesystem partitions has >> been properly installed or the disk properly formatted. When I use "fdisk >> -l" to peek into the content of the CF (through another PC with RHEL), I see >> four drive partitions, with a /boot/grub directory present on two of them. >> All the partitions types are "Linux". I tried playing around with the >> menu.lst and the device.map files but the error persists. >> >> Also, is there any former steps that I have to do to flash the SwanWifi >> image into the CF card? I just assumed it was a regular image and used >> 'gunzip' and 'dd' commands to flash it. The tutorial site already assumes >> that the image is properly flashed on the CF card, which in this case I >> believe has failed. >> >> Did anyone encounter similar issues before or have any good suggestions? >> >> Thank you in advance for your support, >> >> Heming Wen >> McGill University >> _______________________________________________ >> openflow-discuss mailing list >> openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss - Masa _______________________________________________ openflow-discuss mailing list openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss
