Hi Bent, Use Lilo, comes with no fuss.
Bill On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 19:44 +0200, Bent wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
