[Voyage-linux] livecd on soekris 4826

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Jason,

I have tested option 3 for pxe-installing voyage to 4521 a fews ago, and 
it works OK.  I am still unsure why the console went crazy.

So I would need the following information:
1. the /etc/inittab in the live-cd
2. the serial console setting in minicom.  Can you also compare the 
serial port setting of minicom in the live-cd and ubuntu?

These days I have been switching to pxe-install for new board 
installation and testing instead of using the old voyage.update way.  I 
didn't see this problem as I run the live cd in VMWare on windows and 
use hyperterminal on windows to connect the board.  I didn't try the 
minicom in the live cd.

My suggested workaround is running the live cd under qemu on ubuntu and 
use the minicom in ubuntu to connect the board.

Anyone have the similar experience, or has successful story on 
installing voyage on the live cd, please share with us.  Thank you.

Regards,
Punky

Jason Chan wrote:
> I just tried to install over soekris 4826 with solded CF using newly 
> released live CD. It went smoothly until it tried to copy files to CF, 
> after the warning message. The copying process started and then the 
> screen went messy with following messages:
>
> INIT: Id "T0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> b44: eth0: Link is down
> b44: eth0: Link is up at 100Mbps, full duplex
> b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
>
> I did started with  # /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start 19200 and chose 
> menu option 3.
>
> I noticed the output targeted system was soekris 4511/4521, and the 
> target baud rate is 38400
>
> Then I restarted both minicom and soekris, but minicom won't show 
> anything.
>
> I thought I have bricked the box and went back to Ubuntu, where 
> minicom worked and it seems that soekris booting process is frozen 
> immediately after boot. So I have to go through another pxeboot 
> process under Ubuntu to reflash soekris with metrix. Now I again can 
> see serial console using minicom under live cd.
>
> Then I tried to install manually, choosing menu option 1, but after I 
> reformatted the CF before getting to voyate.update, the screen went 
> crazy again and I back to previous state (minicom stops working  under 
> live cd).
>
> Now I am stuck ... can someone help? Is there a way I can pxe install 
> under my host environment (ubuntu) instead of using live cd? Do you 
> have appropriate images for that?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
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