[Voyage-linux] Newbie Question on hda / Soekris & boot priority

[mgrollman]

That was probably the smart way to handle to lilo.conf thing.  I found a 
solution that worked for me, which was installing grub so I could get to 
the grub> prompt and get the thing booted by hand with a serial cable, 
then fixing the lilo.conf after it was running in the Soekris to 
/dev/hdb.  Worked, but I like you way better.

As to the PCMCIA support, two things.  1) Does option 2 install a kernel 
with less than ideal support for the more advanced CPU in the 4801, and 
also, having done thi now, I find that although the PCMCIA support seems 
to work OK (at least as far as cardcrl goes) the card I am trying to 
make run, an Aircard 750 which I had working on voyage 1.0, does not 
fly.  The card is seen by the bus, but the /dev/modem is never created.  
Although for sure it is something I am doing wrong, but I am wondering 
if the "depreciated" nature of the PCMCIA support in this rev of voyage 
might be part of the problem, ie, some udev weirdness with the 2.6.15 
kernel stuff.

Thanks for the insight, it at least got me to the next level.


Kim-man "Punky" TSE wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> 1) Unfortunately, there is no way to set the target root device in the 
> voyage.update.  You will need to fix it manually
>
> ## Put your CF back to knoppix
> mount /dev/<CF device on knoppix> /mnt/cf
> vi /mnt/cf/etc/lilo.conf   # and change root=  line from hda to hdb
> chroot /mnt/cf  lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf
> umount /mnt/cf
>
> 2) Pick option 3 (4511/4521) in voyage.update to have PCMCIA support.
>
> Michael Grollman wrote:
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>> I am trying to build a voyage 0.2 boot disk for a Soekris 4801 with a 
>> PCMCIA slot.  I am building this on a full x86 PC using a Knoppix 
>> boot.  I have a CF card drive in the full PC set to /dev/hda.  Two 
>> issues:
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>> ISSUE 1:  It no boot.  When I make the disk and then move it to the 
>> Soekris 4801 to boot it, I get the following:
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>> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
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>> hdb: max request size: 128KiB
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>> hdb: 1001952 sectors (512 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=994/16/63
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>> hdb: cache flushes not supported
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>>  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
>>
>> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>>
>> padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
>>
>> NET: Registered protocol family 2
>>
>> IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
>>
>> TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
>>
>> TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
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>> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
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>> TCP reno registered
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>> TCP bic registered
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>> NET: Registered protocol family 1
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>> NET: Registered protocol family 10
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>> lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
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>> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
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>> NET: Registered protocol family 17
>>
>> NET: Registered protocol family 15
>>
>> Using IPI Shortcut mode
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>> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1)
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>> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
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>> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
>> unknown-block(3,1)
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>> The Soekris seems to be seeing this as /dev/hdb, even though in the 
>> Soekris Bios is it set as FLASH=Primary.  Is this an issue with how I 
>> am building the voyage disk, or how I am setting up the Soekris 
>> Bios?  Soekris BIOS is set as follows (1.28):
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>> comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.
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>> > show
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>> ConSpeed = 9600
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>> ConLock = Disabled
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>> ConMute = Disabled
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>> BIOSentry = Enabled
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>> PCIROMS = Enabled
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>> PXEBoot = Enabled
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>> FLASH = Primary
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>> BootDelay = 5
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>> FastBoot = Disabled
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>> BootPartition = Disabled
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>> BootDrive = 80 FF FF FF
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>> ShowPCI = Enabled
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>> Reset = Hard
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>> ISSUE 2:  No config choice on voyage.update menu for a 4801 with a 
>> slot card in it.
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>> Explains itself.
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>> Any help is greatly appreciated, as this has been kicking my rear for 
>> a number of days now.  I am sure there is a simple fix short of 
>> re-writing all the scripts till I find the combo that works, and I am 
>> just missing it.
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>>  
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>> Thanks,
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>>  
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>> - Michael
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