Hi The first version of this post apparently never made it to the list, so here it is again. Since I wrote version 1 (2 days ago) I have had rather frustrating experiences with my 5501: It simply will not boot reliably without a serial console attached. As I write below I'm convinced this a flow control problem. Apparently GRUB stage 1.5 hangs waiting for something, for as soon as I attach the console, the boot process continues as if nothing has happened.
My Linux is Gentoo and I wonder if the problem might be distribution specific. I would like to hear from others that either have the same problem and that do not have it (that includes all of you Linux folks out there ;-)). The rest of this post is the original post - I don't want to change it in case it did make it to the list and it just didn't make it to my inbox. Bent Original post: ------------------ The ConMute BIOS is apparently new to the 5501. I have been unable to find a user's manual for the 5501 so I (try to) use the manual for the 4801 instead. After having used the hints from the "5501 Mystery - to me - at boot time" thread I was able to get the 5501 to boot without a serial terminal connected, but it would not reboot reliably. 1 out of 3 times the box hang - both with warm and cold reboot. It is obviously a flow control issue - what else could it be?. I believe I have exhausted the configuration options for GRUB by using these lines in GRUB's menu.lst: # Hide the menu hiddenmenu # Setup a serial console serial --unit=0 --speed=19200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal serial so I have started looking for similar options in the BIOS. There aren't many and most of the are either obviously irrelevant for serial i/o or/and described in the 4801 manual. ConMute isn't described. It apparently has influence on the process for since I changed it from Enabled to Disabled, it has booted reliably. (That statement is no longer true, conf. above. B) So what is the meaning of ConMute? Bent _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
