-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After much searching yesterday I found this. http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2005-July/008897.html
I made the changes, removed console and all was well after that. :-) Hope this works for you as well. Richard Storm wrote: > 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 - -- James Hosken [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jamesho.co.uk GnuPG Key ID: 0x44CB1D77 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHLdeI/FajwUTLHXcRAnlsAJwLqY1+ubAdEShQXpJrETlZiFpXWACeJdPb VmBfCwaChzd5KjlXV36YxrM= =63Kg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
