Hi Peter, For the x-modem: I had the same problem with one 5501. Even when the communication was initiated at 19200, i needed to change the speed in the bios to 9600 and then xmodem worked fine. I only had this with one board, very strange. So try this: force the bios to 9600N81, no flow control. I used Hyperterminal and selected classic xmodem (no 1K xmodem) and then it worked fine.
I hope this helps. Erwin On 24 Aug 2008, at 15:03, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
