Hello, On 13/10/11 20:43, martin f krafft wrote: > Alternatively, I can tell Grub to soft-reboot the machine, issue the > reboot command in the serial monitor (ctrl-p), or push a needle into > the reset hole — all of these yield a successful boot into Grub. > > It seems to me that the storage device takes a while to get ready, > except that it makes the boot sector available in time for Grub to > start loading — but Grub then cannot access the partition table > and/or the filesystem in the first (and one and only) partition. > > Another weirdness I found was the output to the 'ls' command issued > to Grub, because it reported 16 harddisks, e.g. > > resuce> ls > (hd0), (hd0,msdos1), (hd1), (hd1,msdos1), …, (hd15), (hd15,msdos1) > > Has anyone seen this before? > > Can you think of something to do?
We had something quite similar with our (new, and first) net5501 bought this summer. Message was "Grub problems on a net5501", dated Aug 16th. We solved the problem by ditching grub and using syslinux/extlinux as bootloader. Sincerely, -- Mbdr _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
