Okay, the issue was the serial port speed. While there are several wiki articles on this situation, there is nothing in the wiki that states that I need to specify the speed in the pxe config file. Once I did that, it worked okay.
Hal On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
