[Voyage-linux] soekris boot failure

[Pascal de Bruijn]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:48 +0100, Wayne Lee wrote:
> 1, Yes
> 2, Yes I did try chroot and it failed, Yes I had that too so I had to
> re-install grub on the PC this morning.
> 
> It's all good, it works, Thanks for your time and advice,
> 
> keep up the excellent work on voyage.
> 
> What is the network performance like on the WRAP boards? The max I can get
> through a Soekris is 40mb
> 

Although I don't own a Soekris, it will most likely be very similar as
the chips used (The NatSemi Geode and MacPhyter-II's) are the same.

> 
> Wayne
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kim-man 'Punky' TSE" <punkytse at punknix.com>
> To: "Wayne Lee" <wayne.lee at link-connect.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] soekris boot failure
> 
> 
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > 1.  Edit which lilo.conf?  The one inside the CF?
> > 2.  How do you re-install lilo?  on your PC?  and did not use chroot to
> > CF?  If you just run lilo DIRECTLY on your PC and not under chroot, you
> > may be MODIFYING your bootloader on your PC!  You are running into a
> > risk that your PC may not boot up again.
> >
> > And I really don't know much about 4801.  So I don't know why the device
> > name change.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Punky
> >
> > Wayne Lee wrote:
> > > Ok it works now.
> > >
> > > I edited lilo.conf.voyage and re-installed as per your advice. Before
> that I
> > > tried mounting the CF back in my PC then editing lilo.conf and tried
> > > re-installing lilo from there which did not work.
> > >
> > > I'm a happy camper again :-).
> > >
> > > What I do not understand is why the boot drive has changed in the first
> > > place
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Kim-man 'Punky' TSE" <punkytse at punknix.com>
> > > To: <wayne.lee at link-connect.com>
> > > Cc: <voyage-linux at voyage.hk>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:14 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] soekris boot failure
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> It is because voyage assumes the boot and root device must be
> > >> /dev/hda.   You will need to manually modify etc/lilo.conf.voyage in
> the
> > >> distribution and reinstall it to CF card using voyage.update.
> > >>
> > >> Wayne Lee wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> HI Guys,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm having trouble getting voyage to boot on a Soekris 4801 box, I've
> > >>> have built several of these in the past with no problems until now.
> > >>> I'm using the same image as before with the same CF card and
> installing
> > >>> monowall works ok. I'm using a pcmcia to CF adaptor which makes the CF
> > >>> card appear as /dev/hdc. I can see that the installation works ok and
> > >>> there are no errors until I put the CF in the Soekris and it fails to
> > >>> boot with the following error.
> > >>>
> > >>> VFS Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1)
> > >>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > >>> unknown-block(3,1)
> > >>>
> > >>> lilo.conf
> > >>>
> > >>> boot = /dev/hda
> > >>> #compact
> > >>> install=text
> > >>> map=/boot/map
> > >>> vga=normal
> > >>> delay=1
> > >>> serial=0,9600n8
> > >>> default=Linux
> > >>>
> > >>> image=/vmlinuz
> > >>> #       initrd=/initrd.img
> > >>>                 root=/dev/hda1
> > >>>         label=Linux
> > >>>                 append="console=ttyS0,9600n8 "
> > >>>         read-only
> > >>> #       restricted
> > >>> #       alias=1
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm grateful for any help as I'm currently pulling my hair out!
> > >>>
> > >>> Wayne
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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> > >>>
> > >> -- 
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Punky
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Punky
> >
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> >
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