I solved that problem by installing lilo as my bootloader. Here's the process I followed: http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_(4.0r1_Etch)
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, sm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I just bought 4x 5501 systems and have been struggling with them most of > today. There are two issues I'm having, both with the CF side of things. > > First, it seems that on a soft reboot (operating system reboot, or the BIOS > reboot command) my CF card disappears from the list of available devices. > This obviously is a showstopper for me since I need to be able to reboot > remotely and have the system come back up and running. > > Second, I am attempting to load Debian 5.0 on these systems, and have created > a working PXE install. It gets all the way through the install, and after > getting around the problem above, grub starts, but always errors out with > "error 25". I've searched for this on the 'net and found that this error > indicates grub can't find the disk. > > I've mounted the CF in another system and everything looks kosher. I've > tried: > Changing FLASH=Primary to FLASH=Secondary > Changing boot device > Changing hd0 and hda in menu.lst and other various places and reinstalling > grub > Installing grub on (hd0,0) > > Nothing seems to work. > > I'm beginning to think that this CF card is just not compatible with the > hardware, which is a shame, since it's an industrial grade CF that has 10x > the life of a standard CF that I bought specifically for using with these > systems. > > Any thoughts? > > _______________________________________________ > 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
