I'm trying to install Debian Squeeze on a Net5501. I'm doing a PXE boot and
it's reading the pxelinux.0 file from my iMac (running OS X 10.6.6) and once
PXE starts, I get the usual 15-column wide text issue, then I hit <enter> to
boot and it starts booting. Here's what I get from Minicom (the newline
positions may be off, Minicom didn't show them all):
--------------------------------------------------------------
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CD 92 34
DHCP.
CLIENT IP: 172.16.7.226 MASK: 255.255.0.0 DHCP IP: 172.16.7.1
GATEWAY IP: 172.16.7.1
TFTP.
TFTP.
PXELINUX 4.02 debian-20101014
Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al!PXE entry point found (we hope) at
9DEE:0106 via plan
AUNDI code segment at 9DEE len 1966
UNDI data segment at 947D len 9710
Getting cached packet 01 02 03
My IP address seems to be AC1007E2 172.16.7.226
ip=172.16.7.226:172.16.7.12:172.16.7.1:255.255.0.0
BOOTIF=01-00-00-24-cd-92-34TFTP prefix:
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-00-24-cd-92-34
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007E2
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007E
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1007
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC100
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC10
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/A
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default
okboot: Loading debian/squeeze/i386/linux.....
Loading debian/squeeze/i386/initrd.gz.........ready.
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
--------------------------------------------------------------
And after that -- nothing.
I found an email on this list that had a similar problem
(<http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2010-January/016344.html>),
and it was suggested he upgrade from 1.33 to 1.33c to solve the problem. I
tried upgrading to 1.33c. (It wasn't easy, had to reset to a 19200 baud and
re-send the file many times.)
Once I got 1.33c in, instead of booting to PXE, I got a message that came up
ONLY in the 1st column, printing from bottom to top of the screen, about
booting BSD. Even when I pulled out my CAT5 cable from the box, it did that.
I don't know what the deal is, but that makes 1.33c unusable, since it's trying
to boot BSD and freezes during boot.
Also in that thread it's mentioned that this is where control is passed to the
drive or RAM drive.
Could I be getting this error because I'm using a type of flash RAM that's not
compatible?
I can't figure out what is going on and what's failing. Several years ago I
set up a couple Soekris boxes and had no trouble making a PXE boot and getting
Debian installed, but this time I'm stumbling over a lot of glitches and this
one leaves me stumped.
Any help on this is appreciated!
Hal
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