Hello Franck, you're looking at the Lilo diagnostics here. The 'L' is called a boot loader message, while '00' is a disk error code. Here they mean "Unable to start the second stage boot loader - Internal error". See the Lilo manual, probably somewhere in /usr/share/doc.
The problem is most likely in the MBR. The manual reports a corrupted map file and disk geometry problems as possible causes. CF cards with the MBR installed on one host quite frequently cause geometry problems if transferred to another, because the two BIOSes see different things. And somewhere caught in the middle is the boot loader. If you can boot the soekris off the network with the CF card installed, just reinstaling the MBR with fdisk will probably fix the problem. Then chroot onto the CF card's Linux fs and run lilo (if you run lilo from the NFS partition using the '-r' option for the chroot, then both Lilo versions must be the same, or you will get weird error messages yet again). If you don't have NFS set up yet, look here: http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris Setting it up might take some time, but having an NFS root on standby is definitely worthwile when working with CF cards. If you want even more info about boot loader issues than the Lilo manual supplies, check out the "How It Works" series: http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiw.htm Have fun;) Bill On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:13 +0200, Franck wrote: > Hi, > > i've a problem with net4801 and bering on CompactFlash (CF) > > 1/ I'm installed latest bering uclinux on CF on net4801 256Mb > I'm changing initrd.lrp to boot on CF and had serial support > > On boot, net4801 like this : > 1 seconds to automatic boot. Press Crtl-P for entering monitor > L 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 etc .......... > > 2/ I've another net4801 128Mb (3 years old) with bering installed in a > production environnement. > I've copy all CF content from old net4801 to new net4801 CF and the result > is the same :( > L 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 etc .......... > > What could be the solution ? > > Franck -- "Fix bugs first, add features later" _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
