Fwd: [Voyage-linux] livecd on soekris 4826

Sun Feb 4 11:29:52 HKT 2007

fogot to cc the list, I am looking for help ...

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From: Jason Chan <lesswire4us at gmail.com>
Date: Feb 3, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] livecd on soekris 4826
To: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>

Hi Punky:

I am attaching the inittab on livecd, and both minicom settings I used on
livecd and ubuntu are: /dev/ttyS0, 19200 N81, and no hardware flow control.

I noticed the inittab has 38400 for tty1-6, and 9600 for ttyS0, are these
causing trouble?

I also did what you suggested: using qemu to start livecd and using minicom
on ubuntu to connect soekris, but didn't work out, seems to have same
problem as before.

Should I try manual PXE boot guide:
http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pxe_voyage, it looks quite a long
process though (starting from compiling kernels).

For those wanting to set up qemu with bridging mode but not sure how to,
here is a list of what I did:

=====Install Voyage Linux on net4826=====
  - I have ubuntu 6.06 and kernel 2.6.15-27-386 on host system with
192.168.1.0 network
  - mkdir ~/qemu; cd ~/qemu
  - wget http://www.voyage.hk/download/ISO/voyage-current.iso
  - sudo apt-get linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386 bridge-utils minicom
kernel-package
  - cd /usr/src; sudo ln -s linux-headers-2.6.15-27-386 linux
  - cd ~/qemu; wget http://www.qemu.org/kqemu-1.3.0pre9.tar.gz
  - tar zxvf kqemu-1.3.0pre9.tar.gz; cd kqemu-1.3.0pre9; configure; make;
sudo make install
  - follow http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~djw/qemu.html
<http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/%7Edjw/qemu.html>, ubuntu already has tun/tap
configured
  - I didn't bother with sudo setup
  - in my case, I need to first run "sudo umount /dev/shm; sudo mount -t
tmpfs -o size=272m none /dev/shm"
  - for running qemu, replace the script "-hda win2k.img -boot c" with
"-cdrom voyage-current.iso -boot d"
  - now run the qemu script, login with root/voyage into voyage VM, the IP
should be 192.168.1.X
  - in voyage, /etc/init.d/voyage-pxe start 19200, you should get IP
192.168.1.200, and you can ping it from ubuntu
  - start minicom -s, select serial port setup, change serial device to
/dev/ttyS0, Bps/Par/Bits to 19200 8N1, and set no hardware control
  - power up soekris 4826, hit ctrl-p and type boot f0
  - 4826 correctly finds DHCP and TFTP, starts downloading, but then screen
went messy, and frozen immediately after reboot

On 2/2/07, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Punky
>
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