Bas van der Vlies wrote: > On 04-08-10 21:57, Patrick Nolan wrote: >> Tristam MacDonald wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Patrick Nolan >>> <patrick.no...@stanford.edu<mailto:patrick.no...@stanford.edu>> wrote: >>> >>> I tried capturing the boot messages by echoing them out a serial port. >>> (The AMI BIOS allows that.) It works up to a point, but the output >>> quits when the kernel boots. >>> >>> >>> Did you also tell your *kernel* to output over the console? If my memory >>> serves correctly, you need to add something like console=ttyS0,57600 to >>> the APPEND line in your pxelinux.cfg/<whatever>. >>> >> Aha! That did the trick. I'm constantly learning new things. >> >> Now I can get down to debugging. The relevant messages are below. >> This appears to confirm my suspicion that the kernel doesn't have the >> necessary ethernet driver (igb for Intel 82576 controller) in place. >> Is it necessary to compile a custom kernel, or can this be done by >> configuration? If the latter, is it an OSCAR configuration or a System >> Imager configuration? >> > > You can try the kernel/initrd from https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali. It > should support the old systemimager scripts. igb is supported by this setup. > > Thanks. It looks interesting. Unfortunately the web page says that it needs a kernel version 2.6.27 or higher. I'm working with Centos 5, which uses 2.6.18. I'm not prepared to deal with the problems of a custom kernel.
Anyway, I finally got up the courage to try the OSCAR UYOK (Use Your Own Kernel) option. It's not as hard as I thought. It solves the BOEL network device driver problem, but leads to a new set of problems. I'll deal with that in a separate message, coming shortly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
