Background: I'm trying to install Debian Etch on a net4801. The installation works, but grub aborts with an "Error 16" (filesystem corrupt) while loading stage 2. In a previous thread it was suggested that this might be a problem with ComBIOS version 1.29 and that upgrading to 1.30 (or newer) might help.[1]
So I grabbed b4801_133.bin from http://www.soekris.com/downloads.htm, booted the net4801 into the monitor, issued a download command, and selected "send file -> xmodem" in minicom. The result looked like this: +-----------[xmodem upload - Press CTRL-C to quit]------------+ |Sending b4801_133.bin, 608 blocks: Give your local XMODEM rec| |eive command now. | |Xmodem sectors/kbytes sent: 0/ 0kRetry 0: NAK on sector | |Retry 0: NAK on sector | |Retry 0: NAK on sector | ... |Retry 0: NAK on sector | |Retry 0: NAK on sector | |Retry 0: Retry Count Exceeded | | | |Transfer incomplete | | | | READY: press any key to continue... | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ The serial port on the PC is a "real" serial port (no USB to RS-232 adapter). Software flow control was off. I tried it with and without hardware flow control (though at 19200 bit/s I didn't expect flow control to be necessary) - same result. I also tried a block size of 1k instead of 128 Bytes - same result. Finally, I tried it with Hyperterm on a Windows PC. Didn't work either, but the error messages were a bit different (something like "unsolicited nak received" (translated from German)). hp [1] The OP in this thread got it to work with LILO instead of grub - that's what I'll try next, but I think upgrading the BIOS should work, too. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Am Anfang war der Bug und der |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | Verantwortliche sprach: | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Es werde ein Testcase. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Clemens Zauner in dcii
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