Hi,
I'm putting together a disk image based on Metrix's Pyramid Linux
distribution for a set of net4801-{50,60} machines.
Yesterday, I observed this problem...
I have grub installed before a bootable ext2 partition on a 1GB compact
flash card; the partition size is 64M. When I power up the net4801, I see
the BIOS POST on the serial console (9600 baud), and am able to interrupt
the boot by going to the BIOS console. When I allow it to boot, the machine
starts endlessly printing asterisks ("*") at 9600 baud, even though I have
grub setup to run a 19200 baud serial terminal. Because of this, it seems
like the problem comes before control is handed to grub.
Does this problem sound familiar to anyone?
The kicker is that this just started yesterday; I had been previously
working on this image with a Debian 2.4 machine. Yesterday, I upgraded the
kernel to 2.6.22 (and a number of packages were upgraded as well).
As far as I know, I'm creating the partition/file system and installing grub
correctly. Since it's the fun thing to do, here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst
file:
BEGIN------------------------------------------------------
timeout 3
serial --device=/dev/ttyS0 --speed=19200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
terminal serial
title Metrix
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-metrix root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,19200n8
title Shell
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-metrix root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0,19200n8
init=/bin/bash
END------------------------------------------------------
If anyone can offer any insight into why my image won't boot, please let me
know!
Thanks in advance,
John Otto
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