Hello Domenico, I'm not a GRUB expert so I can't judge your config, but it looks OK to me as far as options are concerned, and besides nobody has reported errors so far, so I guess it's not a GRUB or kernel option problem. You could try copying a different (e.g. older) kernel to the CF, just to see if it will boot (ignoring module versions for the test). If it does, then it might as well be a Linux kernel bug. I've seen Linux kernel X.Y.Z booting, X.Y.Z+1 hanging, and X.Y.Z+2 booting again before on a particular machine. Here's a vmlinuz known to boot on a Soekris boxen, a net4501 at least (and I've never seen a report on this list that it wouldn't run on any other Soekris):
http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/vmlinuz If no other kernel boots, then I'm out of options. Disk geometry? By the way, am I correctly guessing that you burned Debian onto the CF on a different host? Here are two alternatives: http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/ (where the kernel comes from) http://soren.overgaard.org/debian/soekris-net4801 (uses debian-installer) I've installed Debian over NFS using debootstrap or dbootstrap - I'm not sure which one and if it is still supported - a few years ago, it went very, very smoothly. I've never had any trouble installing whatever from a login on the Soekris box itself. Hope any of these will work. Bill On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 13:09 +0200, Domenico Cacciari wrote: > Hi, > about the output of grub i see only ¨starting¨ after the grub menu and > then nothingelse. > My menu.lst is this: > > default 0 > timeout 3 > hiddenmenu > serial --unit=0 --speed=19200 > terminal --timeout=15 console serial > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-server > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-server > root=UUID=8b5b1223-70a5-4235-a2f7-4bc107fff97c ro console=ttyS0,19200n8 > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-server > quiet > savedefault > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-server (recovery mode) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-server > root=UUID=8b5b1223-70a5-4235-a2f7-4bc107fff97c ro single > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-server > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-server > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-server > root=UUID=8b5b1223-70a5-4235-a2f7-4bc107fff97c ro quiet splash > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-server > quiet > savedefault > > title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-15-server (recovery mode) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-server > root=UUID=8b5b1223-70a5-4235-a2f7-4bc107fff97c ro single > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-server > > title Ubuntu, memtest86+ > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin > quiet > --------------------------------- > > Thanks, > > Domenico > > Bill Maas wrote: > > Hello Domenico, > > > > Send more details, like the GRUB output. Another list member sent you > > the contents of his menu.lst, where's yours? You're communicating at the > > "help it doesn't work" level. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:22 +0200, Domenico Cacciari wrote: > > > >> Thanks to all for your help, > >> but if i start linux with qemu it works well with serial console and > >> boots up normaly. > >> This is what i can´t understand, why the same cf card works with qemu > >> and serial console, but with the net4801 it does not work? > >> > >> > -- "Fix bugs first, add features later" _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
