On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just purchased a Soekris net5501 and tried to install FreeBSD > 8.0 on it. > However, I cannot get it to work, and I am hoping for your kind suggestions. > > I installed FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE i386 to a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (3.5" > 160GB) SATA harddisk on a different computer (let's call it SERVER). > Sliced and partionened the disk; enabled DHCP and SSH; installed the > FreeBSD. > Boots fine on SERVER. > > Then I connected the SATA disk to the Soekris box, and powered up. > > I have connected several different terminal emulators to the Soekris box: > Windows2000 / HyperTerminal > Windows2000 / TeraTerm > (Also tried Windows2000 / Poderosa; but missing the .NET libraries I did > not succede) > Ubuntu 9.04 / tip > Ubuntu 9.04 / gtkterm > Ubuntu 9.04 / cutecom > > For each of those I started out with 19200 baud, 8 bits, 1 stop bit. > > The Soekris box boots up nicely and shows the expected output in all the > terminal emulators. > I do not press control-P so Soekris loads the FreeBSD boot loader, which > correctly shows the F1, F2, F3 options. > I touch nothing and the boot loader (seemingly) starts to boot FreeBSD. > I get a lot of gibberish (kind of the same in all the above emulators). > However, i clearly notice some dash-slash-pipe-backslash repetiitons, so > I kind-of expcted that FreeBSD was booting. > After half a minute or so the output stops. > However, the terminal seems non-responsive to any input (letters, > CR/enter, control-C, etc). > > The Soekris box does not seem to acquire a DHCP address. > > After having tried this a lot of times (with the different terminal > emulators) I give up. > > I remount the disk in the SERVER. > The /var/log dir show NO log entries between the initial SERVER boot and > the current one. > So apparently the FreeBSD boot (if that is what is what) has not > progressed to find the disk. > > Just "for the fun of it" I installed Ubuntu Lucid Alpha2 desktop on a > free partition on the SERVER. > Btw, this owerwrote the FreeBSD bootloader with GRUB2. > (Yes, I could have chosen a stable server version of Ubuntu, but this > was the CD I happened to have lying around). > > Booting the Soekris box I get > GRUB loading. > error: no such partition > grub rescue> > > If I try the commands "?" or "help" I get > Unknown command > > If I try "ls /" I still get > error: no such partition > > Finally, on the SERVER I installed pfSense 2010.0217-2217. > (Works like a charm on the SERVER and another box) > > But booting the Soekris box gives > > FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: P > > Does anyone have a suggestion on what to try next ??? > > Thanks in advance > > /Henrik > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >
FreeBSD by default uses 9600 baud for serial lines. You probably want to go into CTRL-P in the BIOS and set the baud rate to 9600, which I believe will work for bootup (first thing I did with my 4501 ages ago). -Proto _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
