This doesn't seem to be OS specific, I have the same with OpenBSD. If I power up net5501 without serial cable plugged in, then I see all three lights light on (Power/Error/Disk) and nothing happens.
I have the newest BIOS version 1.32i. On 11/4/07, Bent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi James > > Welcome to the list. > > 2007/11/3, James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Just got myself a net5501 and have installed IPCOP on it. > > All seams to be working OK apart from when I try and boot without > > the serial cable plugged in. It just refuses to boot. But when you > > connect up the cable during the boot is just continues. > > I had the same problem, but it has gone now. Oh, I take that back: It > might not be quite the same: At exactly which point in the boot > process does the boot stop? You can see it by noticing where it picks > up when you insert the serial cable. Mine stopped in the display of > GRUB's menu. > > For your information my grub menu.lst looks like this: > > ================ > # Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second, etc. > default 0 > # How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted > timeout 8 > # Hide the menu > hiddenmenu > # Setup a serial console > serial --unit=0 --speed=19200 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 > terminal serial > > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.22 i686 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 > > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.22 i686 (Old) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/hda1 > ============== > > I believe that the 'hiddenmenu' thing did the trick. I'm not > absolutely sure, because at the same time I changed the NIC > configuration from using DHCP to using a fixed IP address. I think > that some of the boot failures I saw were due to the 5501 getting > another IP address than the one I pinged. I should of course have used > nmap to see where it appeared. > > I hope this will be of help. > > Kind regards, > > 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
