On 25/02/2010 8:24 AM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote: > 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 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/ > I had what sounds like the same problem. See my blog at http://menhennitt.com.au/wordpress/2009/07/05/installing-freebsd-on-a-soekris-net5501-using-pxe-and-dnsmasq#more-14 about it. In particular, the bit starting "Finally, I had something go wrong when...". Basically, I needed a custom kernel.
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